Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...sits there for at least four hours, whether ideas are flowing or not. "You need a door to shut," she says, "although it doesn't necessarily keep anything out." She spends much time reading: "The science-fiction writer had better keep up with current science and avoid dumb mistakes, or the other writers really let you know about it." She now attends fewer science-fiction conclaves and conventions than she once did, and has given up the pipe smoking that made her stand out in the crowds...
...sound like chapters taken from The Condition of the Working Class in England. No matter how scientifically he records his results with microphones, magnetic tapes and hidden cameras if Wallraff seeks only part of the truth, that is all he will ever uncover. For a man who deceives to avoid being deceived, Wallraff commits the gravest error of all: self-deception...
Many people are selling to avoid rising insurance costs and the risk of robbery, which is epidemic. Burglars increasingly are breaking into churches and synagogues to plunder sacred pieces of silver and gold...
...actor enjoys being typecast. But how to avoid it when you're a shark? Pity poor Bruce, the mechanical monster who cut his teeth on his first starring role-and various fellow players-four years ago in Jaws. Since then it's been mostly downstream for the studio fish: Jaws II, a bummer; a swim-on in a TV series; contract work in a pool on Universal's back lot eating an ersatz fisherman whenever a tour train went by. Now Bruce is in front of the cameras again in the upcoming spook spoof The Nude Bomb...
...Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, maintain that death by injection, however carried out, violates the Hippocratic oath, by which all doctors vow never to harm their patients willfully. In fact, the oath specifically forbids using or suggesting the use of poisons. The policy adopted by Oklahoma tries to avoid any conflict with medical ethics by requiring "trained medical employees" to insert a drug-carrying catheter and inject the lethal substance. But does that relieve doctors of their responsibility? Not really, say the authors. They point out that a doctor must still prescribe the drug, supervise the lethal injection...