Word: avoiding
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...Jerusalem may be the most intractable issue of all: Barak is under mounting pressure at home to avoid returning an inch of the Holy City to Arab sovereignty, while Arafat will be branded a sellout if he settles for anything less than Palestinian control over that part of the city they call Al Quds captured by Israel in 1967. Both sides' recalcitrance is driven by the religious passions at the very heart of their national identities - passions which militate against seeing the other side's point of view, which, after all, is the very essence of negotiation...
...come here for a year. Its so easy to compare Oxford to Cambridge, and to be homesick for decent food and familiar newspapers and the Boston Red Sox. But by knowing that I'll be back in my natural habitat so soon, it's just as easy to avoid immersing myself in the culture; for six weeks, it wouldn't be hard to pretend that Oxford is just Harvard with nicer lawns. Being here for a couple of semesters would force me to explore and to adjust...
...anything demanded in traditional American sports (which may be why Americans are so put out by cycling - most of us realize we can never, ever be that fit, and it makes us vaguely uncomfortable). So we go back to our putting greens and swinging our little metal sticks, and avoid contemplation of our inadequacies...
...your child's given name is versatile, you might avoid a permanent name change. Kastner, for instance, preferred her middle name, Scribner, when she was in school. One of my sisters has alternated between Kimberly and Kim. Then there's the always appropriate "You can do whatever you want once you turn 18, honey...
...avoid parking any critically psychotic patients in jail, Gwen Turner, a retired chancery clerk and advocate for the mentally ill, proposed five years ago turning an empty downtown building into a crisis center where Natchez Regional Hospital doctors could volunteer to treat these patients. (The regional hospital won't accept them.) But she found little interest in her proposal...