Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Northeastern (6-6-3, 2-4-3 Hockey East) had to rally from a 2-1 deficit against Dartmouth (2-6-0, 1-3-0) to avoid a mild upset at Hanover...
...advice on how to protect himself from hotheads. Sperber, 60, figures he had better take two self-defense courses recommended by the cop, including "Verbal Judo," which is designed to help de-escalate potential violence. When he returns to teaching in January, after sitting out a semester to avoid having his teeth knocked out, his name will not appear on course listings. For his own protection, he'll be Professor Incognito...
...city code (such as CHI for Chicago, NYC for New York City and WAS for Washington) instead of a specific airport name. Another trick is to log in around midnight central time, when many reservations expire and are dumped back into the pool of available flights. Around Christmas, avoid Dec. 22, 23, 24, 26 and 27. If you don't mind flying on Christmas Day, you'll get the lowest rates...
...Court to blanch at that political abyss. Scalia, along with his silent partner Clarence Thomas, has plenty of experience playing the role of Public Enemy No. 1 with half the nation. With a presidential election on the line and historians expecting something grand, he's likely to want to avoid sitting in that box this time around. So don't be surprised if he and Rehnquist, holding the leverage, use it to shop for a unanimity they can live with...
...into convening the National Security Council, a body created by Pinochet to deal with national crises, in which the military presence is dominant. Still, the council is constitutionally toothless, and Lagos has insisted that he'll hold the meeting only after the high court's ruling, so as to avoid interference in the judicial process. The sad truth for Pinochet may be that the flap sparked by his arrest is nothing approximating a national crisis. Seizing power again is no longer a plausible option for the military in a post-Cold War world, and the indictment of their former leader...