Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to support sectarian religious proselytizing. In this decision, the Court mandated that a state run university must subsidize an evangelical Christian student newspaper titled Wide Awake, which aims not only at discussing ideas about religion, but also at converting its readers and persuading them to repent and avoid hellfire by initiating a personal relationship with Christ...
...There was a general effort to avoid anything that were dead turkeys and wouldn't get off the ground," Astrue said...
Cabot's basement is not exactly the most aesthetically pleasing study venue that Harvard has to offer, which is exactly why it fits the needs of the procrastinator. No fun and exciting decorations to look at. Visual distraction is eliminated by mini- malism. Avoid the comfy couches and chairs near the basement entrance: if any procrastinator sits here, she becomes the basement's welcoming committee for any and all remote acquaintances. In addition, these comfortable furnishings are more conductive to sleep than study...
Contacted yesterday, union chief Stephen G. McCombe would not comment on the state of the talks, saying both the union and the University had agreed to avoid publicly commenting on the discussions...
...latest "It Boy of the moment," is the novel's memorable protagonist, an uberstereotype of the male model. "The better you look, the more you see," goes Victor's pithy saying, and he believes it. His lifestyle is the extreme of everything the current culture worships: he can't avoid thinking in brand names and image and speaks with lines from pop songs ("do you have the time to listen to me whine?"). Even honesty to him is merely another image--"The 90s are honest, straightforward. Let's reflect that". Obviously not too bright (the opening page has a hilarious...