Word: avoiding
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Experts say the best way to avoid getting conned is to be skeptical. They suggest calling government licensing agencies and the Better Business Bureau. But one Furlow victim, John Nakai of Littleton, Colo., did both. State employees told him they don't track facilitators, and the Better Business Bureau for Eastern Pennsylvania had (and has had to this day) no complaints about...
...with the Internet, video games or TV. Families in the study reported that when there was a conflict over TV, kids simply retreated to their rooms, where 57% have TVs and 11% have Internet hookups. Giving a child her own TV might seem a handy way to avoid scuffles over the remote, but it is a terrible idea. TVs and computers should be in a central location so parents who can't figure out the V chip can at least know what TV their kids watch, and how much...
...Jerusalem may be the most intractable issue of all: Barak is under mounting pressure at home to avoid returning an inch of the Holy City to Arab sovereignty, while Arafat will be branded a sellout if he settles for anything less than Palestinian control over that part of the city they call Al Quds captured by Israel in 1967. Both sides' recalcitrance is driven by the religious passions at the very heart of their national identities - passions which militate against seeing the other side's point of view, which, after all, is the very essence of negotiation...
...come here for a year. Its so easy to compare Oxford to Cambridge, and to be homesick for decent food and familiar newspapers and the Boston Red Sox. But by knowing that I'll be back in my natural habitat so soon, it's just as easy to avoid immersing myself in the culture; for six weeks, it wouldn't be hard to pretend that Oxford is just Harvard with nicer lawns. Being here for a couple of semesters would force me to explore and to adjust...
...anything demanded in traditional American sports (which may be why Americans are so put out by cycling - most of us realize we can never, ever be that fit, and it makes us vaguely uncomfortable). So we go back to our putting greens and swinging our little metal sticks, and avoid contemplation of our inadequacies...