Word: avoiding
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...Fulfill his draft order b) Heal the wounds of the Vietnam War c) Get in on the Pho craze d) Avoid Gore's incessant "But I won the popular vote!" whining...
...guru: "A boil, like an angry mob of Floridians, is an ugly sight, but nothing that Rutherford B. Hayes--whose postelection carbuncles were legend--couldn't overcome. Forget antibiotics. Trust the people's wisdom: Apply slices of raw bacon wrapped in gauze to the boil, and no matter what, avoid hand recounts...
Boies is used to cramming. He has struggled with dyslexia since childhood, and memorizes every detail to avoid having to read anything twice. A few days before Thanksgiving 1986, he was recruited to perform one of his most dramatic saves: appealing a jury verdict that assessed Texaco $10.6 billion for busting up the acquisition of Getty by Pennzoil. At the time, he had been tending to his dying mother in Fullerton, Calif. By Dec. 3, he had mastered 30,000 pages of the original trial transcript, and for the duration of the appeal he split his time between federal court...
...never gone out looking for anything," she says, speaking of the avalanche of adaptations and licensing. "It all comes to me." She volunteers this information to avoid the rap that she's exploiting Seuss and explains that by creating trademarks in various media, she's protecting her husband's creations. Yet some of Geisel's decisions, notably to publish some material that her notoriously perfectionist husband left unpublished, are difficult even for her to explain. "Because everyone out there wanted it," she says, "and because Random House wanted...
...general, though, breakups are a good thing for investors. The best tend to be tax-free spin-offs of 100% of a subsidiary. A company spins off a division for lots of reasons--maybe because it needs to get out of a business to avoid conflicts with other pursuits. Or maybe because it screws up and those synergies never surface. Hello...