Word: avoiding
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...Judge Parker's anger is surely understandable, given that the government had convinced him it was essential to keep Lee in solitary confinement to avoid endangering hundreds of thousands of American lives, and then had simply walked away from its case once the scientist signed an agreement to cooperate with investigators...
...with investigators last year. But it's also plain, now, that the pursuit of Lee, which began in a climate of political hysteria over allegations of Chinese nuclear espionage, has been an embarrassing failure for a government that appears to have been forced to accept a plea agreement to avoid further humiliation. After all, the deal came days before the deadline on which the government would have been forced to hand over thousand of pages of documents explaining why Lee had been arrested. And in his ire, the judge expressed regret Wednesday that the government hadn't been forced...
...Thorpe's determination has been underplayed. Constantly seeking improvement, he is prickly before meets. He hasn't given an interview in months and has even moved his training to enemy territory--Colorado Springs--to avoid local distraction. He pours so much into his swimming that it takes him a week to recover from meets. During that time, he likes to watch movies, and his favorite is Billy Madison, in which a good-hearted lamebrain played by Sandler has to start school all over again as a young adult...
Just the thought of such punishment can make men quake. Take the '92 games in Barcelona, where Karelin dispatched two frightened challengers in the semis and finals without breaking a sweat. Both opponents obligingly rolled onto their back to avoid being lifted and airmailed. "They were so afraid of that," says Hull, "that they practically let themselves be pinned...
...Iris realizes that she is the only person left alive who knows the circumstances behind these deaths. Having been warned by her doctor that her heart is weak, the old woman begins, reluctantly, to write down what she remembers: "After all I've done to avoid it, Iris, her mark, however truncated: initials chalked on the sidewalk, or a pirate's X on the map, revealing the beach where the treasure was buried...