Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insulates those with real estate and stocks and fine art from the effects of inflation but not those without appreciable assets, whom inflation hits hardest. (Homeowners already have big tax breaks. They're allowed to roll gains tax-free from one home to the next and, at 55, avoid tax altogether on $125,000.) Furthermore, insulating voters from inflation makes them more tolerant of it and thus its rise more likely -- but its effects, ultimately, no less devastating...
...council can regroup, centralize its committee structure to avoid another financial boondoggle and set its leadership to work on an well-thought out agenda, the council might win a measure of genuine respect from its constituents...
...last two games have proven that Harvard can move the ball and has a potent offense if it can avoid the costly turnovers. But more mistakes will mean a very frustrating Ivy season...
...leaders contacted this week said theprotests are part of a strategy to avoid enteringa state-by-state battle with anti-abortionactivists, where the choice movement could befragmented...
...King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1959, when Sorella manages to arrange a showdown with her husband's savior. She tells all, of course. Her description of the crucial encounter, both poignant and hilarious, settles nothing except the certainty that Broadway Billy Rose will do anything to avoid receiving an expression of gratitude by Polish immigrant Harry Fonstein...