Word: avoiding
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...technology capable of delivering not only nuclear warheads but also biological and chemical weapons. In short, Moscow is no longer the only danger. "Today the world is no longer bipolar," says Henry Kissinger. "Today the threats have moved into different areas. Deliberate vulnerability, when the technology is available to avoid it, cannot be a strategic objective, cannot be a political objective, and cannot be a moral objective of any American President." In 1995 Clinton vetoed legislation that would have required the deployment of a missile shield by 2003, saying there was no threat justifying such a deployment...
...nearly impossible for any Southern writer to avoid the specter of William Faulkner. The world he created in Yoknapatawpha County, perhaps the best-known plot of literary real estate, exerts its influence over the aspirations of the region's writers and the expectations of readers and critics. It could therefore be construed as an act of either bravado or foolishness that Randall Kenan, who lives in Memphis and was raised in North Carolina, has also constructed a fictional Southern locale, a swampy speck called Tims Creek, N.C. "I could have run," says Kenan, 37, of the inevitable comparisons...
...your child's given name is versatile, you might avoid a permanent name change. Kastner, for instance, preferred her middle name, Scribner, when she was in school. One of my sisters has alternated between Kimberly and Kim. Then there's the always appropriate "You can do whatever you want once you turn 18, honey...
...avoid parking any critically psychotic patients in jail, Gwen Turner, a retired chancery clerk and advocate for the mentally ill, proposed five years ago turning an empty downtown building into a crisis center where Natchez Regional Hospital doctors could volunteer to treat these patients. (The regional hospital won't accept them.) But she found little interest in her proposal...
...fellow passengers have varying levels of Potter confidence. I see some boldly reading their books as if it were the latest literary "must have"; others try to avoid detection by wrapping their book with brown paper or stuffing it between the pages of the Economist...