Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like some 150 other young children in the U.S., 21-month-old Alyssa Smith was waiting for a new liver, her one chance to avoid death at an early age. Her prospects did not look bright, since the supply of livers taken from cadavers and suitable for transplant is critically slim. But last week a team of surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center gave the little girl from Schertz, Texas, her chance to live. And what seemed truly miraculous about the operation was the source of Alyssa's new liver: her mother...
This is a small matter next to the chance for peace on earth or a free Eurasia. But it's a matter of immediate practical import. In the past decade the conservative movement remade the face of American politics. Politics must change if conservatives do. And how can conservatives avoid changing once they don't have Karl Marx to kick around anymore...
Anticipating this study, the code pledges to protect privacy (except when there is a "public interest" in intruding), to provide an opportunity for reply, to correct mistakes promptly, and to avoid irrelevant references to race, color and religion. The code also promises an end to the sort of deception that followed the Sheffield soccer tragedy, when journalists posed as social workers to interview grieving relatives...
...unique pieces of journalism in this week's issue. One is an interview with East German leader Egon Krenz, the first he has given to an American magazine. The discussion deals with the fall of the Wall, German reunification, the future of socialism and Krenz's decision to avoid bloodshed in Leipzig. The other story is an amazing reconstruction of what went on behind the scenes in Prague in the months before the fall of the Communist regime. These are only two examples of the additional dimension we try to bring to the news every week...
...guidelines explicitly avoid dealing with academic situations because "the teacher should be the one who determines the agenda of discourse in the classroom...