Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henderson said any reforms would have to be carefully formulated to avoid "eliminating the valid courses...
...legislature did not, of course, rush willingly into creating its own watchdog; it only acted when Common Cause collected 95,506 signatures in support of a new ethics statute. The legislature did, however, squeeze through a watered-down bill in order to avoid seeing the tougher Common Cause proposal on the November ballot. As local attorney Robert Moncreiff explains, "while a lot of people woke up this January and felt the law had dropped out of the sky, it was clear that it would have been on the November referendum list if the legislature didn't act quickly--and nobody...
Koshland said psychological diseases are also influenced by hereditary and environmental factors. A person with a biochemical lesion, which usually causes schizophrenia, might avoid the disease if he were brought up in a tranquil environment...
...Andy Chaikovsky dropped their first set to Virginia's number three singles player Cameron Corse and his partner, Stone, but then roared back to crush the Cavalier pair 6-2, 6-4 in the last two sets. Chaikovsky, playing despite a shoulder injury and serving half-speed to avoid aggravating the injury, said afterwards the shoulder had not bothered him too much. The injury may, however, continue to keep him out of singles competition during the team's trip to California this spring...
...came to this sport to avoid commercialization," says Jonathan Baum, a Manhattan lawyer. "It was an unpleasant shock for me when I first skied on a groomed trail. I said, 'Hey, I'm not the first person to be here...