Word: avoiding
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...something to look at, if this trend continues," McNamara said. "If you feel in fear, quietly and slowly walk away or cross the street to avoid them...
First-year orientation is awash with advice about how to avoid impending disasters. Budget your time. Choose courses wisely. Watch your back at parties. Watch your belongings at Lamont. Heed these warnings and your world won't cave in. But, unfortunately, your ceiling may well...
...night the equivalent of three e-mails to high-school pals, or one coffee-break or surfing two Internet sites? We also have to create conditions in which we can sleep properly. So we have to practice what doctors call "good sleep hygiene": wind down before going to bed, avoid caffeine after midday and don't sneak daytime naps...
...things he was out of was his mind. In a movie, Oscar Levant told Joan Crawford, "Don't blame me, lady. I didn't make the world. I barely live on it." Somerset Maugham dignified the dreaming-out-the-window business. "A state of reverie," he said, "does not avoid reality; it accedes to reality." I like that--accedes to reality...
...bear hunt. Last summer Governor Christine Todd Whitman pressured the state's fish and game council to reduce its target from 350 to 175. Instead of a hunt, foes argue, let the bears deplete their natural food supply, which would cause their numbers to drop--assuming, that is, they avoid the local Dairy Queen Dumpster. "Trophy hunting solves nothing," says Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the U.S. "People should bear-proof their garbage and close their windows while cooking...