Word: avoided
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This may, admittedly, be my own fault. I have, until this point, subscribed whole heartedly to Harvard's scholastic model. I have bought into the prevailing system of incentives, sought the celebrated rewards, tried to avoid the relevant punishments. In so doing, I have, for over three years now, conditioned myself to answer the questions posed by Governor Bush in a fundamentally unsatisfying way. How should I live? I should live a life of ambition, intensity and striving. What should I love? I should love reason, excellence and achievement. Indeed, these prescriptions are not without their payoff. They illuminate...
...argument feels hollow and lopsided; her sources are undeniably selective and incomplete. Bourke ignores important studies that inconveniently contradict her assertions. Dave Grossman, in his Pulitzer Prize-nominated study, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, argues that most soldiers try to avoid killing and, when forced to kill, experience stages of thrill, remorse and rationalization. Bourke focuses on only one of these stages of emotion, thrill, ignoring the others. Similarly, she completely neglects John Keegan's The Face of Battle and mentions Richard Holmes's Acts of War: The Behavior...
Unlike application fees which students could avoid if eligible for fee waivers, no one can opt out of the costs of traveling to interviews...
...said he told Gahan's girlfriend to hand over the hat to avoid more violence...
...done any campaigning in Iowa and said he would only engage in one debate there, in January. The December appearance could provide Bush the opportunity to give the people what they want and catch McCain flat-footed. But he'll also have to do something he wanted to avoid - square off with the party's right-hugging contingent, represented by candidates Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes, who could force Bush to defend himself to conservatives, possibly at the expense of some centrist swing votes. But then again, isn't that what the campaign cycle...