Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When Carter threatened in January to use force if the Soviets headed toward the Persian Gulf, he seemed at last to have entered the world of action. But his subsequent hesitations over acquiring bases in the area made it seem that he was again trying to avoid that world. Carter is obsessed by his claim that not a single American boy has died because of any of his orders. This attitude obscures the fact that his uncertain trumpet has surely encouraged the Cuban mercenaries in Africa, the Soviet dislocations in Ethiopia and the invasion of Afghanistan. All produced death...
...more fun to win than to lose at the collegiate level, as anywhere else. But larger games are played. Recruiting excesses are difficult to avoid. In the game of ideals versus practicality, it is best if the score stays tied...
...practically a publishing category of its own, perhaps soon to be a new shelf in bookstores: "Cooking," "Jogging," "Post." Yet the writers of these tomes, for all their attention to the detail of personnel changes and serious analysis of every merger and serious analysis of every merger and acquisition, avoid the most salient factor in the Post's rise...
Women Against Violence Against Women recently persuaded Warner Records to avoid record covers suggesting violence, Kilbourne said, but she added that many other record companies still value profit more than responsibility...
...collegiate athletics, the AIAW, has designed its tight regulations with the intention of eluding the recruiting excesses that have beset men's sports under the auspices of the NCAA. And while women's coaches concede that loopholes exist, Stoeckel says only time will reveal whether women's athletics avoid the pitfalls prevalent among big-time recruitment...