Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal discrimination laws. But the Seventh Circuit, siding with the company, two weeks ago concluded that the workers had failed to show that the health hazard could be eliminated by anything less than the sweeping measure in question. Said the court: "The unborn child has no opportunity to avoid this grave danger, but bears the definite risk of suffering permanent consequences...
...avoid raising suspicions, Olaf, a roofer, returned to work after their midday decision. Marlies headed to the bank, where she withdrew nearly all their savings and converted just enough of it into Czech currency, she explains, "to allow us to pretend to border officials that we were going to Czechoslovakia for a short vacation." Because they were afraid to expose their plans even to friends and family, there was no one to bid them farewell at 9 that night, when they piled their children -- Christian, 5, Susann, 3, and Katrin, 9 months -- into their worn getaway car, a 1972 Fiat...
NATION: Did the U.S. fumble its best chance to topple Noriega -- or avoid an ill-planned blunder...
...defense surrendering 37 points per game, it has been a burden of Atlas-like proportions--falls squarely on the right arm of Perry. The senior quarterback has passed for 844 yards and seven touchdowns, but has also thrown seven interceptions and has still not developed the ability to avoid the sack...
SEIU was put on the ballot after a group of professionals at the Amherst and Boston campuses, eager to avoid the mistakes of previous years, interviewed several unions. The rival union was put on the ballot by Gerald A. Quarles, head of a professional's non-union campus association...