Word: avoiding
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...answer: through a "civil war" already in progress. "I have witnessed the struggle for the soul of American Jewry. It has torn asunder families, communities and congregations," he writes. He describes the embarrassment and rage felt by more liberal Jews at Yale University when some Orthodox students sued to avoid living in co-ed dorms; the dismay of the alumni of a secular Jewish summer camp in New York State upon discovering that their alma mater had been supplanted by the ultra-Orthodox community of Monsey; and the pressures that drove a troubled Orthodox gas-station cashier in Jacksonville...
...hands of the best clients remains intact. In some cases the code will get even more indecipherable. And while the field levels, there may be less information overall as companies freak out over what they can say. Some 42% of companies polled say they will reduce communications to avoid running afoul of the new rule, reports the National Investor Relations Institute...
...seniority: Verizon also agreed to use union workers for DSL installation jobs (it had wanted to farm the high-growth area out to non-union labor to avoid strict union work rules) but won the right to choose its teams rather than automatically award the coveted task to the most senior union members...
...night in the sagging middle of this Clinton-Gore-Lieberman convention, the liberal lions were let out of their New Democrat cage. It was an indulgence the Republicans hadn't dared risk, but it was one these Democrats couldn't well avoid. Not with star-power politicians like Jesse Jackson, Teddy Kennedy and Bill Bradley ready to sing the praises and the necessity of Al Gore. But somewhere on Gore's way to the left coast, the chronically overshadowed vice president must have wondered if these lions couldn't have left a little more of the roaring...
...additional revenue of higher oil prices to finance his domestic social programs, and he's inviting OPEC heads of state to Caracas next month for their first meeting in 25 years to firm up their unity. After all, the cartel is effective only as long as all its members avoid the temptation to cheat on their production quotas by pumping extra barrels. In the process, Chavez is making no secret of his confrontational attitude to Washington's interventions - on Tuesday he urged OPEC members to resist outside pressure to lower prices...