Word: avoiding
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...back, he could have a second career as a futon. But you can see why he works so well with anxious, career-minded stars: he exudes an aura of calm. Jerkins works out of Pleasantville in part because he grew up in the area, but also so he can avoid all the drama that comes with recording in New York City. Okay, maybe he can be a little too mellow. During an interview, he also reads and sends messages on his Motorola two-way pager. "Just got a page from Carole Bayer Sager," he says casually. Ooookay...
...Avoid new debt if you can, and explore alternatives if you can't. For instance, you may be able to find a moderate fixed-rate credit card. That beats transferring your balance to a new card with a low teaser rate every few months. Most people fail to stay on top of that strategy, and many teaser rates don't apply to an old balance anyway. Home-equity lines of credit are easy to get, but the rate usually floats. Consider instead a fixed-rate home-equity loan for a one-time consolidation of debt. Beware though. Some lenders...
...leverage for Beijing. In the West the gap makes China look weak. But the gap actually makes China strong. China has the advantage--the underdog's advantage--that comes from knowing that shutting the country out, trying to hold it down, provokes the resentments the West wants to avoid: resentments that might make Chinese markets hostile to U.S. exporters. When a U.S. bomber accidentally struck China's embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war, protests were heard not just in Beijing but also in other cities around the world. America's image as an overbearing superpower is something the Chinese...
...carefully tailored to their tastes. It will begin to feel less like an intrusion. This works for the advertiser too because fewer dollars will be wasted. While it's a little dispiriting to think we can be so predictably manipulated, maybe that's a fair price to pay to avoid the pollution of messages you don't care about...
...after Fujimori's government refused to comply with a call by election monitors to postpone the poll. The monitors of the Organization of American States, with Washington's backing, had expressed grave reservations over irregularities in the first-round ballot - won by Fujimori, but without a sufficient majority to avoid a runoff - and urged postponement in order to resolve problems including candidates' access to the media, monitors' access to the polling stations, and the bug-prone software used to tabulate results...