Word: avoiding
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...region to 47, Mbeki insisted that "as Africans we have to deal with this uniquely African catastrophe" and that simply accepting Western conventional wisdom on AIDS would be "absurd and illogical." Mbeki's remarks, in letter to President Clinton - which administration officials considered so unfortunate that they tried to avoid releasing it to the media - even likened those warning against the views of dissident AIDS scientists to the repressive apartheid regime and book-burning religious fanatics...
...Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 comedic thriller North by Northwest, Cary Grant is pursued across the country after the becoming victim of mistaken identity. Yesterday afternoon, after a disastrous weekend at Yale, a Harvard baseball team in search of its offensive identity tried to avoid going South by Northeastern...
...Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" That annulment was just finalized two weeks ago after it was discovered that Rockwell had a restraining order filed against him by a former girlfriend. (Darva's response to the whole fiasco: "Oops.") The execs at Fox vow to avoid further exploitative programming (this from the network of "When Animals Attack" and "World's Wildest Police Chases"). The "Multi-Millionaire" event proves that even careful background checks can miss something, and in the high-stress situations of "Survivor" and "Big Brother," even a small oversight in the psychological or physical tests can explode into...
...Perng was careful to avoid any direct call for a boycott and treaded carefully the line between accusation of discrimination and accusation of bad hosting...
Buckner, although he had been a solid player for the Sox (he had 2,715 hits in 22 seasons and a batting title in 1980), moved from Boston in the post-season to avoid the harassment of angered and anguished fans...