Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Their countries may technically still be at war, but the two Koreas seemed remarkably unified during the Opening Ceremony when they joined hands and marched together for the first time ever. In the spirit of reconciliation, South Korea even trimmed its marching delegation from 400-plus to 90 to avoid overwhelming the smaller North Korean troupe. There was just one problem: Pyongyang had given an inflated estimate of its Olympic squad and had to fly in last-minute participants to bring its delegation up to 90. "The cost of getting them here was worth it," says North Korean delegation member...
...film school at the North Carolina School of the Arts, produced the 1996 film "Set It Off." It was violent, raw and rated R, but Pollock says its distributor, New Line, marketed it to young audiences. "People are naive to think marketers are scrupulous in trying to avoid exposing R-rated films to [kids]," he says. "The exact opposite is true." New Line, a subsidiary of Time Warner, had no comment...
...offense is serious enough to merit court action, the Ad Board will usually delay its decision to avoid creating paperwork the court could subpoena, says Cabot House senior tutor Robert H. Neugeboren...
Texas Gov. George W. Bush's negotiations regarding the debates may have been a transparent attempt to avoid a well publicized debate with Vice President Al Gore '69. But Gore, in refusing to debate with the minor party candidates is refusing to engage the harsh criticism of his platform that the minor parties represent...
Japan is also awash in mergers, but with a difference. Instead of trying to compete with U.S. and European banks, the country's financial institutions are combining to avoid bankruptcy following a decade of recession and bad loans. Simple survival was the driving force behind the recent merger of Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan, three laggard giants whose combined assets of $1.2 trillion make it the largest financial-services company in the world...