Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything." Those of us who tend to think of Aykroyd more in terms of an unfunny fat man may have trouble discerning Ritchie's meaning. At any rate, the portrayal of a mental patient as a shyster who fakes mental illness to avoid responsibility is highly offensive to anyone who has had contact with the disease...
...whole--no, I won't even say that; pervasively, this film sucks. Avoid...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...line companies are U.S.-based, their profits do little to ease Washington's foreign trade deficit, since few of their ships fly the American flag. Carnival's ships, for example, are registered in Panama and Liberia. Most liners carry such flags of convenience for economic reasons: the companies can avoid U.S. corporate taxes and hire low-paid foreign crews. That strategy has its drawbacks. Under an 1886 federal law, foreign vessels are not permitted to transport people between ports in the U.S. A foreign ship that sails from New York City, for example, cannot pick up passengers in Miami...
...doing their official work on state-commissioned schools and apartment blocks. A chronic shortage of building materials is the biggest problem. Some parishes hire a staffer to forage throughout the country full time on the trail of everything from nails to cement. State-run factories are under orders to avoid selling materials to the Catholic Church, but the scavengers skillfully play on the religious feelings of bureaucrats: sometimes they hand out religious calendars and books to get a foot in the door. Occasionally they even stage...