Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national security directive, signed by Reagan on Nov. 1, authorizing lie-detector tests for thousands of Government employees and private contractors who handle sensitive information. Questioned by reporters, Shultz said that he considers polygraph testing ineffective, that it often implicates innocent people and that trained spies can easily avoid detection. Asked whether he would ever take such a test, the Secretary replied, "Once." Face reddening, he added, "The minute in this Government that I am not trusted is the day that I leave...
Maimonides conceived his Mishneh Torah as a single unifying law code for Judaism. Although it never became that, his work substantially affected every later development in Jewish scholarship. By many accounts, Maimonides' legal compendium provided a strength that enabled Judaism to avoid factionalism during the Muslim and Christian persecutions of the Middle Ages. The Guide of the Perplexed influenced the metaphysical speculations of Thomas Aquinas and other Christian scholastics while being largely ignored by medieval Judaism. But for modern Jews, says Biblical Scholar Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University, Maimonides provides "the model of a person who is able to accept...
...Israelis tried to keep the whole affair secret, even to the point of asking newspaper editors not to print stories about it. Foreign observers concluded from this that the Israelis, though they later leaked some of the details of the Syrian missile emplacements to reporters, were trying hard to avoid a confrontation. As for Assad, he had obviously felt obliged to respond to the loss of his planes. But he knows the limitations of his air force, and seemed unlikely to risk an open fight with the Israelis. Overall, the U.S. felt that whatever tension had existed earlier was easing...
When the furious energy that has fueled an artistic movement dissipates, what is left? When the youthful goals of discomfiting elders and shocking the bourgeoisie have been achieved, what remains to be accomplished? Can an erstwhile avant-garde development settle comfortably into maturity and still avoid middle-age spread...
...lost much of its rebelliousness, but in so doing has discovered a more delicate mode of expression as well as a broader popular base. To refine and succeed is not necessarily to become complacent or sell out. The crucial thing for any style is to avoid both self- satisfaction and self-parody, to keep the visions fresh. If The Juniper Tree is any indication, the American avant-garde is alive and well, just a little older and wiser...