Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turning away visitors and cutting phone lines. In Shanghai, some foreign newspapers delivered to hotels had articles and pictures snipped out. CNN -- which Beijing remembers as the means by which the world watched China's repression live -- has been banned from offices and apartment buildings until next Tuesday, to avoid any news reports or memorials that might stir dissident hearts...
...CHARGES If you have a gripe with American Express, don't expect to make your case in court. Starting next month, the company can bring customer disputes to arbitration, which, it says, is the most efficient way to settle claims. This will also help the company avoid juries. BankOne and Bank of America have similar rules for Visa and MasterCard, but Citibank does...
...weapons originally sent from Washington going to spark a full-scale war between the world's newest nuclear nations? "No, both sides are determined to avoid a war," says Rahman. "Instead we're looking at a long counterinsurgency as the Indian army comes under political pressure to retake the territory seized by the infiltrators." In other words, just business as usual in Kashmir. A surer indication that dispute will remain local: Even as their armed forces trade fire in the disputed province, both countries vowed Friday that the conflict wouldn't jeopardize their ongoing involvement in the cricket world...
...Although both governments want to avoid a slide into all-out war, India is determined to respond forcefully to the most serious incursion into its territory since 1948," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "Pakistan may be tempted to defend the infiltrators by attacking Indian planes, but that would mean a full-scale war." Pakistan has denied responsibility for the incursion by heavily armed insurgents, some of whom may have been trained in the Afghanistan camps of alleged superterrorist Osama Bin Laden. But Islamabad's protestations of innocence are dismissed in New Delhi, which insists that an incursion...
...SAFETY For years, doctors have tried to spare women from having a mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ, a noninvasive form of breast cancer. Instead, they cut out only the cancerous cells and then irradiate the breast. Now a major report shows that women may be able to avoid radiation too--as long as doctors remove a 1/2-in. margin of tissue along with the problem cells. That sure beats getting zapped, which is expensive, time consuming and may make future mammograms difficult to read...