Word: avoids
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...crutches and shouting demands for vengeance. If such an emotional atmosphere surrounds the U.N. commissioners, and if the hostages are then asked their views of U.S. policy and of the Shah, the scene might resemble the kind of show trial that the U.S. has sharply warned the Iranians to avoid...
...obvious U.S.-West German differences remained. While Vance stressed at a press conference that the Soviets "must pay the cost flowing from the blatant invasion of a neighboring country," Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher took a very different tack. Said he: "We must do everything we can to avoid escalation, make a political solution of the problem possible, and pursue détente...
Like private detectives, corporate hiring officers are paid to be nosy. But many interview questions, like all those listed above, are now effectively off limits in job interviews. Personnel officials must manage to avoid sometimes sensitive subjects like race, religion, marital status and arrest records, or risk discrimination charges and perhaps endless legal battles. Since the mid-1960s, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and federal courts have so confined companies in a mass of dos and don'ts that about the only totally safe question to ask a potential employee is "Would you like a cup of coffee...
Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan and arch-conservative Rep. Philip M. Crane (R-Ill.) unabashedly admit they want to emphasize spending on a military buildup over solving domestic problems. George Bush prefers to avoid issues altogether in a manner dangerously reminiscent of a president we did have to train. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.) opposes the vital Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II). And former Texas Gov. John B. Connally amply showed the extent of his geopolitical understanding when he called Sadegh Ghotbzadeh "a KGB agent, or at least a Marxist," the other night...
Candidates who try to avoid issues are an ancient blight on the American political landscape; but only recently have they perfected the sleight-of-hand by which silence becomes an unbeatable advantage. In 1976 Jimmy Carter stepped into a closed railroad car, and rode it straight to the White House; no one caught a glimpse of the man anywhere along the way. Other candidates are trying to take that same ride today...