Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...giving her self-confidence and a moral grounding. Stacy Anderson has tried to teach her daughter some of the lessons that she herself learned through experience. "I've tried to point out some of my earlier mistakes as a teenager," she says. She has tried to help her daughter avoid "falling into social pigeonholes...
...People accidentally shoot you; they hide behind corners. I heard about someone last year who camped out to avoid getting caught in his room," she said...
...want to avoid meetings, become a conservative because you won't get invited so often," he quips...
...Unless they try hard to avoid it [professors here] end up on more committees outside the institution than faculty at less prestigious schools," wrote Leverett House Master and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi in an e-mail message from California where he was attending a Department of Energy committee meeting...
...Krueger was an MIT first-year who died after a night of drinking at a fraternity house in 1997. Criminal charges were brought against the fraternity, but it disbanded to avoid prosecution...