Word: circumvention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The home rule petition, if passed by the city council and the state legislature, would circumvent the court ruling by giving Cambridge the jurisdiction to ban the sale of individual apartments from a block of housing.
Archrival R.J. Reynolds has been mailing out videocassettes containing commercials for its Now brand of cigarettes. The company says all the tapes ; were sent to smokers who favor Carlton, a competing brand, in an effort to win them over. But Matthew Myers, staff director of the Coalition on Smoking or...
"I will only put my literature in a mailbox," Danehy said, adding that he gives all his campaign workers similar instructions so as to circumvent the litter problem.
The two-week-old nightclub, started by Jeremy S. Pam '92, is open every Thursday night in Dudley House's Lehman Hall, and while admission is open, it is being billed as a private party to circumvent the complicated process involved in staging a campus-wide event.
Admittedly, groups can easily circumvent the new restrictions by signing students up for free "subscriptions"--at the cost of a serious drain on their resources.