Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...veneral disease or pregnancy. While she gets a detailed account of the attack--state law recognizes different degrees of rape, so she must determine exactly what kind of attack occurred--another unit officer may collect evidence, such as hair, semen or a cigarette butt. Although officers are trained to avoid asking victims to repeat details of incidents, Sullivan says, "There's nothing like a real-life situation to show that your training is inadequate...
...whose graying hair and well-cut suit gave him the air of a distinguished Western banker. A tough and experienced negotiator, Jagielski was flanked by a task force that had flown with him from Warsaw three days earlier. Jagielski entered the shipyard through a side gate in order to avoid the antagonistic crowd at the main entrance. Workers stared at Jagielski's team in icy silence, then broke into hearty applause when their own negotiators passed...
...been noticed meeting with military commanders, who are also suspected of being unhappy with Deng, in part because of the low priority being given to modernization of the military establishment. Thus while the Deng forces seemed supreme as the congress opened, they had yet to prove that they could avoid the sort of factionalism in the party that has bedeviled China's leaders so often in the past...
...Ford cars will have important design changes to correct past problems. To avoid the fires that were sometimes caused in rear-end collisions in the Pinto, the new cars' gas tanks are placed in front of, rather than behind, the rear axle. In addition, the automatic transmissions have a pronounced barrier between park and reverse to prevent slippage between the two gears. Last week the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was still considering whether to force Ford to recall some 16 million vehicles because of that problem in earlier cars...
With Detroit's new plants, new equipment and new emphasis on quality control, the reindustrialization of the American auto industry has begun. Moreover, Detroit's experience provides many lessons for other sectors of U.S. business. The most obvious is the need to avoid such industrial decline. A generation of neglect has sapped Detroit's competitive strength, and further delay would have put it in graver peril. Only the huge capital investment now being made has given American automakers the chance to survive...