Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although these situations have occurred in the past, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) hopes to avoid repetitions, so they devote a great deal of time to assigning freshmen to rooming groups...
Because the roommate matching system has its flaws, the FDO makes an effort to help freshmen deal with their roommate troubles. "Most problems can be solved by mediation. We avoid a lot of problematic situations that Way," Worth says...
When asked to elaborate, he modestly responds, "We've just been coming together as a team." This coach, if he is to avoid the tag of arrogant braggart, must appeal to higher motives--i.e. "the way things are" or "team spirit"--as the reason for his team's triumph, without drawing God or other divinities into it. (God and company only work wonders for true underdogs...
...city in unmarked cars, sowing terror. At the Sacre Coeur church, Macoutes interrupted a morning service by smashing the altar and beating two women with the butts of their machetes. One man was shot and killed while walking with his children to church. Foreign journalists soon learned to avoid a small, burgundy-colored car that spewed bullets wildly...
...they were going to vote anyway. "Even if we are massacred by the hundreds, we will never turn back," pledges Rocourt of the beleaguered electoral council. The costs may prove steep, but nearly two years after the hated Duvaliers were ousted, many Haitians would pay almost any price to avoid another dictatorship...