Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which they don't want to live, will fail as long as the students who are intended to round out the stereotyped houses don't want to live in them. There's also the problem of three houses down Garden St. that so many first-years want to avoid...
After all, "anywhere but Adams, Eliot or Kirkland," is a perenially popular first-choice house. Students who are disinclined to live in stereotyped houses could still avoid them under the non-ordered choice system. Non-ordered choice would thus introduce randomization to every house except the ones that need...
NEGOTIATING a settlement out of court is a tried-and-true way to avoid a lengthy and expensive trial in civil cases. Through negotiations, litigants have been able to develop compromises acceptable to both parties, and avoid a definitive ruling on a complicated issue...
UNITED States legal history is filled with cases in which the Court has guaranteed and expanded our rights to free association, free speech and privacy against those who would deny them. It is phenomenal that civil libertarians are now trying to avoid the Court at any cost...
...schools jointly raise tuitions frequently to harvest the prestige tied to expense; a group of 23 elite Northeastern colleges known as the "Overlap" group meets annually to set undergraduate financial aid packages; and, finally those willing to comment say such practices are done publicly with the assumption that agreements avoid "unethical bidding wars" for top students. They argue that the schools thus can spread around financial aid money to the most needy, mitigate the factor of money in obtaining higher education and hence serve the public good...