Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither Balbieri nor Cramer advocate smoking as an effective means to prevent endometriosis. "I don't think women should start smoking just to avoid endometriosis. The benefits aren't that great," Balbieri said this week...
Though Brenneman's even pacing doesn't help Keshishian avoid the ups and downs of individual numbers which range from spectacular to stifling, his painstaking musical selection carries the show. Most of the songs seem appropriate, well-placed, almost meaningful. The projection of the lyrics on screens beside the stage helps the audience focus on the importance of what exactly the actors are mouthing but is admittedly distracting. With no dialogue, except for Brenneman's narration and one brief and painful incident of normal speech, the lyrics have to glue the show together and they...
...REAL THING is a play about people who do everything to avoid reality. The characters, a group of playwrights and actors, hide behind their words and lines in a collective cerebral effort to avoid that most precarious of danger zones, the human heart. A popular offering for perennially over-intellectualized Harvard audiences, this Tom Stoppard play, like a Woody Allen film, could be about what happens to Harvard students when they grow...
...group had to write the names and addresses of the families to visit in code and memorized them in order to avoid being refused entry into the country, said Joy Sobeck '86. The group, divided into three pairs, visited about 30 families in all, she said...
...must find better ways to hedge themselves against sudden swings in exchange rates and other pitfalls of the international economy. In the same vein, he advises countries that they must give top priority to their international competitive position, rather than to domestic economic considerations. Moreover, he says, governments should avoid trying to tinker with the workings of free markets like the currency exchanges. Drucker's musings may be well founded. But they are also, unfortunately, the kind of economic advice that is all too often easier to give than to receive...