Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Most experts agree that to truly save Social Security, something politically uncomfortable will have to be done, whether it's raising payroll taxes, cutting benefits or raising the age of eligibility. Bush has already promised no new payroll taxes; Gore's hoping to avoid all three. Despite the sudden emergence of a serious election-year debate on a very big issue, there's still a lot of parts of the puzzle no one wants to talk about...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't want to have to go out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...regional hosted by No. 1 Washington led off the selection show. The Crimson managed to avoid a date with the top team in the country...
...these secret spies in the sky have a problem: they're not so secret. Too heavy to lift without a fiery rocket plume and too bright to avoid being seen from Earth, the NRO's birds are hard to hide. And an international band of amateur astronomers has determined to find, track and webcast the location of all the members of this orbital fleet for anyone who cares to look--including such less than friendly sorts as Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong...
...closely inspected the data--an activity he accused me of undertaking solely to avoid planning our August itinerary--I started to wonder whether any of the 12,338 vacationers who were surveyed actually traveled with children. "It's funny you should ask," said Brooks Gump, a psychologist at the State University of New York in Oswego who reported the findings. "We have no information on that, but a lot of people have talked to me about the stress involved in vacationing with children...