Word: avoided
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Much of the suffering of this war has been caused by Russia's strategy. In the last war, poorly trained and demoralized conscripts were badly mauled by Chechen guerrillas. Now the Russians have decided to avoid direct fighting. Instead they are using military might to mercilessly pound the Chechen countryside wherever rebels might be hiding; paving the way for Russian ground troops. Since rebels often hide in villages, civilians have suffered greatly as a result of Russia's new casualty minimizing strategy. As the Russian army moves deeper into Chechnya, it leaves a swath of devastated villages, home to maimed...
Through all of the din, referee John Bunyon barely called enough penalties to avoid a brawl. By game's end, though, he had issued 25 minors...
...opponents, a.k.a. bots. Previous id games always had some narrative device, but Quake III abandons all pretense of a plot. It's nothing but networked death matches, played by individuals or teams, against the computer or over the Internet. It's wise to practice on the bots firt and avoid the humiliation I suffered against veterans like Miss Donna...
...recognize me as such, for her to treat me as if I were rude, is just too much. I swear, I could have strangled her right then and th--never mind. As you can see, the rudeness is still hovering about me, so you'd best try to avoid me for the next couple of days, particularly if I'm speeding along on the sidewalk. Just don't call me stupid...
...width, the Agassiz Theater is a small space to begin with, but coupled with the fact that almost half of the performing space is reduced with the ship's quarter deck, the outcome is a cluttered stage. In crossing the ship, the sailors must take great pains to avoid the females' hoopskirts (their costumes are appropriately gaudy, but slightly oversized for the space allowed). Accordingly, director Marisa Echeverria's '00 choreography is fairly simplistic, an acquiescence to the space limitations, as she appropriately chooses to focus more on the production's musical aspects rather than maintain lofty production values...