Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three days later Adam sent me another message, scolding me for not replying to his e-mail. The message sarcastically rang of jealous love. "Your seductive home page, the coy messages left on my computer in the early morning, how could I avoid making you a part of my life," the message read. "And now you want out, to be done with me forever. Well, I have to tell you Gupton, IT'S JUST NOT THAT EASY. I will fight for you Gupton, I will not let you slip away. I know where you live." There was an unmistakable jocularity...
...trying to find the cause of that," Long said. "We don't want to have to deal with this problem in January at two in the morning. We're trying to avoid a catastrophe...
...surprising smell emanates from Only the Paranoid Survive (Currency Doubleday; 202 pages; $27.50), a literate new business-technology book from Intel CEO Andy Grove. The first wave comes as he describes how the microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma...
MANAGUA: With thirty six percent of the vote counted, Conservative Arnoldo Aleman, the former mayor of Managua, is claiming victory in Nicaragua's second consecutive democratic election. Aleman predicted he would win a majority, avoid a runoff and end Sandinista Daniel Ortega's political comeback. Aleman is already making plans to form a national government, formed of all political forces in the country. Ortega is not conceding defeat, while Sandinista campaign chairman Alvaro Fiallos said that it was premature for Aleman to claim victory. The elections themselves were a morass of inefficient bureaucracy, hampered by delays in ballot delivery, tardy...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida: When Tiger Woods turned pro after winning his third consecutive U.S. Amateur title in August, his goal was simply win finish high enough to avoid having to go to PGA qualifying school. Two months later, after winning his second tournament at the Disney Classic, the 20-year-old phenom has a shot at $1 million in earnings if he finishes in the top two at the season-ending Tour Championship beginning Thursday. After debuting with a 60th-place finish at the Milwaukee Open, Woods finished 11th at the Canadian Open. Since then, he has placed fifth...