Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...incident that college officials are trying to avoid repeating...
Morrell agrees: although she did not consciously avoid the on-campus dating scene, the pool of students at Harvard "is just really homogeneous. By going off campus you get a better variety...
...Census Bureau had suggested a way to avoid this undercount, using statistical techniques to determine a more accurate estimate of the total population. Unfortunately, these techniques (known as "statistical sampling") were banned last year by a GOP Congress concerned that the minorities and inner-city voters who comprise a disproportionate number of the undercounted would elect Democrats and that more accurate numbers would threaten Republican seats. (The same Congress later attempted to include the census as an "emergency" appropriation, presumably because no one could have predicted that the year 2000 would come exactly ten years after 1990.) The Supreme Court...
Officials are now attempting to avoid Harvard Pilgrim's liquidation by the government...
...only also-ran in what's shaping up to be a take-no-prisoners showdown between Bush and McCain. The two campaigns spent Tuesday wooing South Carolina voters with TV ads in which each side depicted its opponent as a truth-twisting slick who broke a pledge to avoid negative campaigning. While Bush may be counting on collecting much of Forbes' conservative vote, it may not be that simple an equation: Although much of Forbes' support comes from social conservatives and those seeking lower taxes (both likely to back Bush), he also carried a contingent of people voting against...