Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khomeini's ascent to power worked a remarkable change in a man who had once seemed a gentle, if extraordinarily zealous, cleric. During the upheaval that toppled the Shah, Khomeini urged his followers to remain nonviolent. In part, this was a shrewd wish to avoid harsh military reprisals, but his caution also reflected Khomeini's temperament at that time. Abolhassan Banisadr, whom Khomeini ousted as President in 1981, notes that in the final weeks of Khomeini's exile the Ayatullah "would not even kill a fly." Yet after Khomeini became Iran's ruler, he exhorted his countrymen to kill, burn...
...some programs, youngsters discuss or write up their own cases in an effort to identify the behavior patterns or situations that are liable to trigger hostile actions. For example, sexual offenders are advised to avoid baby-sitting. In the program operated by the Justice Resource Institute in Massachusetts, members concentrate on overcoming aggressive thinking patterns -- for instance, assuming that they are the butt of the joke whenever people are laughing...
...does not want to expose Harvard to misinterpretation," O'Brien says. "He is very, very leery of being misunderstood, and is willing to accept all sorts of brickbats about aloofness and coldness in order to avoid that...
...publication--actually a fairly dry compilation of news briefs about affirmative action in the University's various faculties--seems incongruous in the office of a Harvard dean, most of whom studiously avoid reference to the thorny tangle of issues raised by the hiring of women and minorities...
Undergraduates avoid blaming themselves for their failure to be educated. But they must bear much of the responsibility. When asked what he found most surprising about Harvard, a visiting professor from Australia replied: "It's the students. Most of them are rather dull. They sit in the back and don't ask any questions...