Word: avoiding
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...Barak received a boost Thursday when former Prime Minister Shimon Peres bowed out of the race, failing to secure the backing of the leftist Meretz party. Barak supporters had urged Peres to back out to avoid splitting the peace camp and handing an easier victory to Sharon - but the fact that many polls showed Peres having a better chance than Barak of beating Sharon is an indicator of the scale of the challenge facing the prime minister...
...descent starts to steepen, some of the passengers are starting to scream (including a few Fed governors, according to Monday's Wall Street Journal). Last week, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) implored the Fed to cut rates and avoid a recession before it was "too late." And a sizable minority of Wall Street went into Tuesday thinking Greenspan should have cut rates by a quarter-point, as a Christmas gift to the markets and as an acknowledgment that...
...BEOWULF The Anglo-Saxon epic, the bane of English majors, looks brand-new and thrilling in a verse translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The tale may still strike readers as bloodthirsty, with much hewing and hacking, but Heaney's language evokes Beowulf's tragic stature, his helplessness to avoid--and his bravery while facing--the dictates of his fate...
...been around the German scene for 20 years or more, eking out an existence buying German-language rights to non-German films, then selling the product to cinemas and TV stations. Like film producers, such distributors succeed or fail on the basis of their ability to pick winners and avoid losers. But while a producer can control cost and content from day one, distributors bid on individual films or bundles of films that are already in the can. It made sense, therefore, that someone who can make money with his hands tied as a distributor could make more money with...
...weekend. Vice President-elect Dick Cheney told ABC News that "there are concerns that the way the Clinton administration operated, at least in the past year or so, in the Middle East [has] made it more difficult to reach a settlement," and suggested that his administration would try to avoid the mistake of pushing for a final agreement on Jerusalem. Cheney's comments underline the expectation that the new Bush administration will eschew President Clinton's activist, micromanaging style to Mideast peace, and may adopt a less optimistic approach. The stated intention of President-elect Bush's foreign policy team...