Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jackson's unprecedented and welcome decision to issue his findings of fact before the final verdict may shorten the trial and avoid the unnecessary expenditure of taxpayer dollars on a lengthy appeals process. Because both parties in the case know where they stand before the verdict has been issued, they are able to make an informed decision about whether and on what terms to settle the case...
...parties can settle, they will not only avoid the costly and arduous process of appeals but may also avert the possibility of a new, and possibly ideologically different, administration assuming control of the government's side of the case should it continue past the 2000 presidential election. Microsoft's political lobbying efforts have intensified over the past year, and it would be disappointing to see the judicial process interrupted by politics...
Southworth said he first tried to avoid paying the 1995-96 annual student fees of $ 331.50 by writing a letter to the school administration. When he received no response, Southworth sued along with two other students, alleging that their First Amendment rights of free speech, association and religion had been violated...
TOMORROW: Grown in the lab from stem or precursor cells to avoid rejection by the immune system
...first grasped the significance of this discovery. The main technical objection to germ-line genetic engineering had been the premise that you could never know what effects an added gene would have until after the child was born. By that time, of course, it was too late to avoid unintended negative side effects. But if the gene already existed naturally in other people, you could study those people first to determine the gene's safety...