Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill brings to the company the idea that conflict can be a good thing," says Ballmer. "The difference from P&G is striking. Politeness was at a premium there. Bill knows it's important to avoid that gentle civility that keeps you from getting to the heart of an issue quickly. He likes it when anyone, even a junior employee, challenges him, and you know he respects you when he starts shouting back." Around Microsoft, it's known as the "math camp" mentality: a lot of cocky geeks willing to wave their fingers and yell with the cute conviction that...
...call the guard, but he's disappeared to a distant part of the estate. So he leads the way past bulldozers into trenches that will someday become an estuary and stocked trout stream. At the moment, however, it's a quagmire that proves impassable. Remarkably, Gates is able to avoid looking sheepish. After a few more minutes of shouting, he attracts the guard's attention...
According to Walter, although the squash team currently includes the junior champions of India, Israel, Canada and the United Kingdom, and many top U.S. juniors, fans who avoid matches because they expect an unexciting Crimson rout are missing...
...question how fair a criticism this is. Anything can be misunderstood by someone carelessly "flipping" through a magazine, but does this mean that humor should stay away from all serious topics? We should say no, humor does not have to avoid all weighty issues. We feel that what matters is not simply what topics one deals with but how one deals with them. We also believe that it would have been impossible to have edited out the Schindler's List segment without the piece having lost some of its effectiveness...
Grass-roots tenants unions, like the Campaign to Save 2,000 Homes, are attempting to conduct negotiations with landlords to avoid immediate or drastic rent increases...