Word: avoider
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...wonder into a profitable, long-term company has to be one of the biggest challenges in business. Plenty fail. Remember Beanie Babies? LA Lights? Slap-on bracelets? Duerden, 68, who joined Crocs in March from the London-based brand consultancy Chrysalis Group, says he can help Crocs avoid disappearing altogether and turn the company into "a financially stable company and brand...
...Chirac initiative is treading carefully at the start. Organizers make clear that the Cotonou declaration isn't aimed at generics. And they avoid using the word counterfeit since this term is often associated with intellectual-property issues and could lead some to believe that the initiative is aimed at protecting pharmaceutical companies' profits, not safeguarding public health. Franquet says it's important for public opinion to be mobilized against fake medicines, and he believes that given the sometimes tragic consequences, this should be easy to accomplish. "This is one of the rare areas where the public is on our side...
This particularly spacious gym with a musty smell sits under D entryway. While most House gyms are pretty cramped, Eliot managed to avoid that issue. In part, this is because Eliot only has two treadmills, two elliptical machines/cross-trainers, one stair machine, and one bike. (There are also ergs in a nearby room.) In all, there's less cardio equipment here than in Winthrop and Kirkland...
...Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet and Finance Minister Andrés Velasco (the latter on leave from the Kennedy School) took the lead to create an investment fund that would not be tapped for ongoing operational expenses. The fund could be used to help the Chilean economy avoid an economic collapse; when the worldwide financial crisis broke out 18 months ago, the Chilean government was ready with a countercyclical budget—it spent to cushion the downturn and reactivate the economy...
...minimum nutritional values for each meal. Its budget grew under Eisenhower and Nixon, but the Reagan Administration slashed it by nearly $1.5 billion - making up for the cuts by revising nutritional guidelines, reducing portion sizes and (infamously) attempting to categorize ketchup as a vegetable. (See nine kid foods to avoid...