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Word: avoided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pleasure myself? Um, I'd like to think that I'm good to myself. But um... I'm just going to avoid interpreting that as how many times a week do you masturbate. I try to do certain things at least every day to make myself happy. Things that are purely for me. There's a baseball columnist that I read every day. I often stop by and get smoothies. Friday and Saturday night I always try to do something fun, even just for a couple of hours...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Throwing a Curve Ball: FM Asks the U.C. Presidential Candidates Questions They Never Expected. | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...have monitors in there." The danger now, though, is that UNSCOM (the United Nations Special Commission) gets replaced with a tamer and less confrontational monitoring body. "UNSCOM's combativeness eventually created political problems for both the Iraqis and the West," says Dowell. "There may be a temptation to avoid confrontation in a future monitoring system. And that's potentially a major problem, because the worst-case scenario would be a toothless monitoring system that creates a false sense of security." In other words, we're back at square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He-e-e's Back! Saddam Is a U.S. Dilemma Again | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...meantime, Steen said HASCS is trying to avoid further disruptions to network availability...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Upgrade Attempt Slows Network | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...executive order has more clout, since it could take effect in as little as two months with the benefit of no political haggling. The plan requires all insurance companies and medical providers that receive federal funding (roughly one third of all hospital and doctor visits) to develop practices to avoid medical errors. This is such a huge chunk of the medical industry that experts say it could lead to industry-wide reform. The President also received a pledge from the American Hospital Association to compile data on errors from its 5,000 member hospitals and implement a system to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care Reform, Plan B — Amputate the Errors | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...that Russia actually wantsto kill Chechen civilians, but Moscow isn't going to break a sweat to avoid it. The Russian army dropped leaflets on Grozny Monday, warning the remaining civilian population of the Chechen capital to leave by Friday or else "be destroyed." The leaflets offered Chechen civilians safe passage out of the city by a designated route until Saturday, but the extent of that safety remains questionable in light of the ongoing bombing and shelling of the city and of Moscow media reports last Friday that Russian forces had fired on a civilian refugee convoy. "The Russians' track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chechnya, a Chronicle of a Massacre Foretold? | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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