Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handshake contributes to an interviewer's judgment, so it should be strong and confident. To avoid clammy hands, Bowman recommends washing and drying your hands before the interview...
BankBoston is eager to avoid a fiasco similarto Cambridge Savings Bank, which haggled over itsproposed renovations for years...
...avoid the conflict with local leaders,Robertson said the bank will search for smallerlocal tenants and will carefully examine thecommunity's retail needs...
...diversity if we don't understand the nation that we live in and the government that serves us? Diversity for the sake of diversity is worthless. For it to be worthwhile, it must improve and inspire us. It certainly should never place barriers between us. Unfortunately, allowing immigrants to avoid learning the language and about our values and government does just that: It leads to forced self-segregation and denies them the opportunities that others have. It's fine for immigrants to stick together to preserve aspects of their original culture, but it's disturbing when some have no choice...
...course of a week, thousands of New Yorkers visit relatives in upstate and western New York prisons. On Friday and Saturday nights, dozens of buses and vans stack up at Columbus Circle. Mrs. Rosado, who retired as a seamstress four years ago, prefers to go on a weekday and avoid the crowds...