Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoid the charge of entrapment, agents cannot create their own chat rooms or initiate sexually explicit talk. The suspect "needs to take the first step," says David Knowlton, deputy assistant director of the FBI. "Then we'll talk with him." Applin says he gave Naughton several opportunities to back out of their planned encounter; at one point, Applin even joked that he had told the L.A.P.D., FBI and CIA about the dirty pictures Naughton had put on display. The warning went unheeded...
Watson said, only half-in-jest, that when he was putting together an ethics committee to look into cloning, that he wanted a woman in charge. "Women essentially like babies, men try to avoid them," Watson said...
...Avoid the prepsters at a local dive. Cambridge has plenty of smoky, subterranean dens of iniquity and upscale venues where prices and door policies often leave you in the cold. Upstairs at Charlie's Kitchen (10 Eliot...
...smoking is a choice made by informed adults who evaluate the potential health risks of smoking and then decide, none the less, to engage in a risky behavior. Yet, these claims are near impossible to accept, especially in light of the fact that the tobacco industry so wants to avoid civil trials that, in the last year alone, it has agreed to pay $250 billion dollars to treat smoking related illness over the next 25 years...
This is when shopping period sours. Professors want to start teaching courses and stop holding open houses. Students want and need to know what readings are expected and to be able to purchase them. The Coop wants to provide the correct number of books at the best cost to avoid the Internet competition and the angry, frustrated students in line worked up about the bitter end of shopping freedom and the need to commit...