Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...offering a non-Communist such as Malinowski to head the government--which in itself would be a first in postwar Poland--the Communist Party apparently hopes avoid the once-unthinkable prospect of a Solidarity government from coming true...
...public life, Denis, as all Britain calls him, is discretion personified. "So long as I keep the lowest possible profile, neither write nor say anything, I avoid getting into trouble," he says. This rigorously observed tenet has helped establish Denis as a model consort and has won him popularity verging on admiration...
...agree with my friend Jenny that it is possible to avoid labels. At least, I (sadly) believe that no time in the future will people be able to look at others as JUST people, without categorizing them by race and sex and class and everything else. The idea is horribly pragmatic, and pessimistic, but I can not avoid believing that it is true...
...family leave for both sexes. Tax breaks would go to firms that allow job sharing and flextime, and to developers who build affordable housing with communal meal-preparation facilities. (A problem she does not mention is that many employers do encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls for a "Marshall Plan for the Family," in which government would encourage day care by students, elderly neighbors and grandparents. Neighbors could form support networks so couples wouldn't feel so alone. "Traveling vans...