Word: avoiding
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...Recent criticism of the department--aside from whispered asides at the Faculty Club--has come from the cultural right. The National Review's Guide to Colleges advises conservative-leaning students to avoid Harvard's English courses, on the basis that traditional canons of literature are sacrificed to political correctness and trendy theories...
...commitment by both current and former Harvard officials and faculty members to maintaining an environment of open debate on campus has helped Harvard to avoid such troubles...
...course, the candidates don't avoid talking about the economy: Al Gore does his best to bask at every turn in its warm glow, as if the boom were an achievement of the Clinton administration; while George W. Bush, for his part, uses it to sell his own supply-side tax cuts by claiming the expansion as a product of Reagan-era tax policies. But economies expand and contract according to their own rules - yes, folks, even Alan Greenspan himself would tell you that his job is closer to that of a janitor than of an architect - and aren...
...provision is not new. But word has spread slowly, largely because companies avoid dispensing anything that approaches individual tax advice and there's nothing in it for the IRA industry. But financial planners I've spoken with endorse the strategy with such vigor that you have to worry about hype. This isn't a no-brainer. And the pitfalls include the risk that you'll wind up overly concentrated in one stock. You also have to pay a tax up front...
...would try to avoid looking at the pinball machine in the corner. But gradually he'd lose his resolve and go to the bar to get change. A few tables away, a young Amherst graduate who had been reading Camus, occasionally nodding sagely and muttering "Quelle ironie," would drift over to the machine and see how the Princetonian was faring. "I won 14 games off that baby yesterday," the Amherst man might say. A conversation would ensue. That's how Americans with a deep interest in Sartre and Camus met each other in Europe in the late...