Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Harvard's swift response to Loury's arrest last week may have been related to the revelations about drug use on the Law School faculty which came out after Douglas Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court. The University may be trying to avoid earning a reputation for condoning drug use on its faculty. But if that's the motivation behind the response to Loury's most recent arrest, the Administration should have said that during the Ginsburg fiasco and not at a time when such a statement makes another indiscretion seem acceptable...
Andrews, who works at the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, later recanted his original story, and told detectives investigating the incident that he invented the story about an unknown assailant to avoid embarrassment, Moro said...
Negotiations between Yale University and its clerical and maintenance unions have made little progress and an informal deadline for an contract agreement has passed, but both sides this week said they remain optimistic they can avoid a strike...
...avoid instances in which conversations come perilously close to an unhindered completion, the company has hired thousands of professionals to carefully listen to our telephone conversations. Their job is to make disruptive clicky sounds at key moments indicating that there is another "call waiting." Ideally, this will cause us inadvertantly to hang-up on the people to whom we already were speaking. The people at Bell Labs find this very funny. The technique is most enjoyable during important conversations...
...store managers said that shoppers who can'tfind radio-controlled cars or who avoid holidayshopping for the next 22 days converge on thestores on December...