Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...events in the past year, but it also squandered time and credibility playing politics over issues that did not concern student life. The wasted efforts from last year eventually overshadowed the good things the council did accomplish. For the Undergraduate Council to be successful this fall, it needs to avoid politicking and to take actions relevant to the student body...
...time gets cut done a lot so we do more off the court work and hit only a few times a week," junior Julia Kim said. "In tennis a lot of players have been playing since they were 10 or 11 so the off-season is very important to avoid burnout...
...Islamic guerillas took Afghanistan's capital city Friday morning with little resistance and quickly hanged a former president. They later set up an interim ruling council and declared Islamic law. Government forces that had been opposing the rebels withdrew north of the Kabul Thursday night, saying they wanted to avoid civilian casualties. Members of the Taliban, a rebel group led by ex-seminary students, stormed the city at about 1 a.m. Friday from several directions. They quickly located former President Najibullah and his brother at a U.N compound, where they had been hiding since losing power four years ago. TIME...
...yoga, meditation and diet program for reversing coronary heart disease. Says Ornish: "When you compare the cost of an angioplasty to the cost of this program, the insurers are saving $5.55 for every dollar they spend. Moreover, 90% of the people recommended for bypass have been able to avoid it." Chiropractors, long the whipping boys of the medical establishment, are licensed to practice in all 50 states, their services covered by Medicare, Medicaid, workers' compensation and, in all but 10 states, private insurers...
...these three values achieved a number of important strategic goals. It allowed the President to avoid divisive politics that pit group against group and interest against interest. It provided a clear opportunity for him to make a direct appeal to the common ground, which poll after poll shows voters prefer to the partisan divisions that many believe have infected our political system. Specifically, independents and moderate Republicans often preferred this values-based appeal to the more strident rhetoric adopted by Newt Gingrich and his colleagues during the 1995 budget showdown. Our polling also demonstrated conclusively that while voters preferred...