Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course of three weeks, over 25 dining hall staff members, who requested anonymity to avoid creating even more tension, told The Crimson how their jobs have changed since last spring...
...overtime last year, it was just a matter of if, or when, Harvard would score and avoid the tie. Dartmouth never cleared the zone, and winger Tammy Shewchuk converted one of her 51 goals to win. Harvard also controlled the puck for the first two minutes of overtime on Friday, but then Dartmouth junior center Lauren Trottier forced a turnover in the neutral zone and threw a shot on goal. Wiehn knocked in the rebound...
...with enough money to buy TV ads--enough to buy a TV network--if he wants to. He's shown he will spend from his $450 million fortune what it takes. According to the New York Times, he has already given up majority ownership in Forbes, Inc. To avoid being labeled negative, he's going pre-emptively nice. "I like Bush personally. I would consider him for Vice President. His brother, too." If Forbes peels off conservative votes, it increases the chances of a McCain nomination. The Senator from Arizona should go to Iowa and campaign for Forbes...
...puzzle their parents, but it is familiar to any student of anthropology. Childhood friendships that naturally flow into sex as girls and boys mature are a common pattern in tribal societies, in which everyone knows everyone else and sexuality is taken in stride. So are sexual practices designed to avoid pregnancy, and a lack of desire to spend time with one's partner to the exclusion of other young people--just as at Webster Groves. Dating is a modern invention, which makes sense only among large groups of people who do not know each other very well and/or denounce premarital...
...face on their modified- food crops here in the U.S. Opponents charge that by changing the makeup of foods to increase productivity or enhance favorable characteristics, the companies are forcing "Frankenstein" crops on the public. Biotech companies have been hush-hush about their products in the U.S., hoping to avoid a repeat of their ill-fated marketing campaigns in Europe, which were met with damaging protests and plummeting profits. But a rising tide of public distrust in the U.S. has prompted a broad campaign to help define the debate on more favorable terms here...