Word: avoiding
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Clinton should take a lesson from Hayes if he wants to avoid being trapped by history into a forgettable presidency. His 19th century predecessor has been given a raw reading by historians who are just as enamored of wars and depressions and human calamity as Hollywood. They have tended to write bad scripts, at least at first, for those Presidents who presided in moments of prosperity and tranquillity and kept them that way. Cases in point: George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Dwight Eisenhower, William Howard Taft and Martin Van Buren...
...book agents, several of whom quickly offered five-figure sums to the dismissed juror for an interview. Fujisaki declined, although he did revoke the courtroom pass of a Los Angeles TV station whose camera crew attempted to follow the jurors' van from the courthouse. He ordered the jurors to avoid all radio, television and newspapers until they reached a verdict...
Thus, allowing many people to be in your blocking group, but not rooming with them, is an easy way to avoid hurting the feelings of those you may not want to room with...
Students say the review will help avoid the problem of the "G-10 rule," which forces students to leave the graduate school after ten years if they are not making satisfactory progress...
...more than 300 people have been injured and 100 arrested in clashes with police this week, opposition leaders seemed to acknowledge that Milosevic may yet strike out. The coalition Zajedno provided its own, unarmed security forces for the rally, while protest leaders begged the crowd to disperse promptly to avoid further provoking riot police. Meanwhile, Pesic and the two other opposition leaders, Vuk Draskovic and Zoran Djindjic, met with French leaders in Paris to further rally international support. In Belgrade, they know, sits not a vanquished foe but a wounded tiger...