Word: avoiding
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...incident that college officials are trying to avoid repeating...
Harvard had to be careful to avoid a letdown after the heartbreaking loss from the night before. The Crimson knew that it could not take the struggling defending-Ivy champions lightly...
...airlines may be discouraged from doing the extra safety checks that could get them in trouble for what they uncover. Fellman says the new prosecutorial intensity has led him to recommend that his clients "rethink the detailed audits" they traditionally do on their operations, so as to avoid providing grist for prosecutors...
Morrell agrees: although she did not consciously avoid the on-campus dating scene, the pool of students at Harvard "is just really homogeneous. By going off campus you get a better variety...
...Census Bureau had suggested a way to avoid this undercount, using statistical techniques to determine a more accurate estimate of the total population. Unfortunately, these techniques (known as "statistical sampling") were banned last year by a GOP Congress concerned that the minorities and inner-city voters who comprise a disproportionate number of the undercounted would elect Democrats and that more accurate numbers would threaten Republican seats. (The same Congress later attempted to include the census as an "emergency" appropriation, presumably because no one could have predicted that the year 2000 would come exactly ten years after 1990.) The Supreme Court...