Word: avoiding
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...Weintraub said the carrier will do what everything it can to avoid "random chaos...
...Atal Behari Vajpayee and President Clinton held talks in New Delhi and pretty much agreed to disagree on matters nuclear, even as they vowed to strengthen their relationship and hold regular summits. Vajpayee reiterated India's policy of maintaining a "minimum nuclear deterrent" but vowed that New Delhi would avoid further bomb testing - although he has no plans to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, just yet - and would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in any conflict. But containing rather than reversing the South Asian arms race may have been about the best President Clinton could hope...
...twirling in circles until the world spun wildly and you couldn't stand on your feet? That's how many of my former patients described their disorienting bouts with dizziness--especially the elderly ones. As many as 38% of older Americans struggle to keep their world stationary, trying to avoid dangerous falls and potentially life-threatening injuries. Dizziness is so common among seniors that patients and their doctors tend to write it off as an inevitable consequence of aging...
...find the story of the decline of Lloyd's of London tragic and deeply disturbing [BUSINESS, Feb. 28]. The attempts by Lloyd's insiders to avoid and dilute their liabilities are abhorrent and completely at odds with the law. But what of the conflict between an ancient establishment rooted in honor and unlimited liability and a modern litigious society, seeking to avoid individual responsibility at all costs? Is there equity in hounding the Names to suicide or their last penny when the companies that initially profited from asbestos have already escaped behind the cloak of limited liability? At the beginning...
...warfare between the two countries. Remember, while each side has a collection of nuclear weapons, they have little by way of structures and procedures governing their use - mutual surveillance systems, hotlines and all the other comprehensive mechanisms developed by the U.S. and the Soviets during the Cold War to avoid a nuclear confrontation...