Word: avoiding
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Baum is softspoken, polite, bookish, a man who tries to avoid open confrontation. He has a fondness for fine food, art and opera. His taste: Mozart always, Verdi and Wagner occasionally. "There are days when you just can't listen to Wagner," he says. As Archbishop of Washington, B.C., for nearly seven years, he succeeded cut-and-slash Conservative Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle. Baum calmed tempers and tried to strike a balance between outraged church loyalists and Catholic University of America professors who regularly question papal pronouncements...
...perks in a period of worldwide inflation, insufficient opportunities for working wives (or in a few cases husbands) and a sense that in an age of instantaneous communication the scene of the real action in American diplomacy has shifted from the embassies to Washington. "We used to avoid home assignments like the plague," says a diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Paris. "It was expensive, and the jobs were less interesting. Now it's the other way around." An officer based in Belgrade agrees: "Ten years ago, the problem was: How do you get 'em back to Washington...
Mugabe next held out the olive branch to former Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front, which had won all 20 of the white parliamentary seats in separate elections last month. Smith, who illegally declared Rhodesia independent in 1965 to avoid majority rule, responded by urging fellow whites to stay and support the new regime. Though a portfolio seemed unlikely for Smith, Mugabe reportedly wanted to include some whites in his Cabinet. One probable candidate: the present Finance Minister David Smith, a politically moderate technocrat...
...condominium developer could form a joint program helpful to condominium developers and which would create a low interest mortgage rate to the elderly. If the city set low real estate tax on the unit, it would allow the minimum cost for housing and at the same time avoid the necessity of government subsidization...
...argues the University should make academic appointments with a blind eye to politics, and thus avoid being identified with any political ideology. In the case of most academic appointments, politics have no place. But in departments like Economics that often serve as launching pads for lucrative consulting jobs in big business and government, it's naive not to consider politics as one of many considerations in the appointment process--especially when, as in Harberger's case, the appointee has made a career of actively putting his theories into practice. Cases like Harberger's will come up infrequently, but when they...