Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four key elements. It must guarantee workers a wage they can live on. It must require companies to disclose publicly the locations of their factories, because otherwise sweatshops can be concealed too easily. It must be enforced by a monitoring agency free from any industry influence in order to avoid conflicts of interest. And, because as students we are implicated in the policies of our universities, anti-sweatshop polices must provide for substantial student participation. A policy without these elements would leave it open to doubt whether Harvard clothes are manufactured in sweatshops...
Siegel said some candidates even avoid taking ajob with Harvard in the first place, choosinginstead to take jobs with schools where tenure canbe a reality form the start...
...customs agents say the case has uncovered an informal network of suspected pedophiles who share ways to avoid getting caught. In separate investigations, nine men have been taken into custody for intending to leave the U.S. for sex with minors. "It's always been a shadowy existence. We don't really know what we have yet because we're only getting into it," says Walter Deering, special agent in charge of the State Department's diplomatic-security service, which has investigated recent cases of child smuggling...
Sitting on the bench in a red hooded sweatshirt, O'Neal could only watch as the Lakers shot 33.3 percent, including 28.5 percent by the starters. The Lakers needed to hit three straight shots in the final minute to avoid the franchise-worst 31.2 percent shooting they endured against Denver...
...essential to study the competition." The consultants then embarked on a fact-finding mission to interview the guy downstairs, a near Eastern languages student writing his thesis on Mesopotamian divorce contracts. When the student gave the class rave reviews, citing its absorbing material, CSMG advised that I avoid the class...