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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) indicated that an investment in prenatal care for those who cannot afford it would save hundreds of infant lives, prevent hundreds more from being born with low birthweight, and avoid thousands of dollars in neonatal care expenditures. Prenatal care pays for itself four times over...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Healthy Life for Infants | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...window and the Governor and his driver standing nearby. Headline: DUKE FAILS TO STICK TO INSPECT LAW. Before long, the crack drive-time team at one of Cape Cod's largest radio stations began repeating the story, complete with sirens in the background, advising listeners that they too could avoid tickets if only they had a Governor riding in the backseat. The "Backseat Governor" spots tapped a well of venom toward Dukakis, who recently jacked up registration and driver's-license fees as well as speeding fines. In response to callers, workers at WCOD began making cardboard cutouts -- no redundancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Can I See Your Registration? | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...Yaobang, supported political reform and was sacked for not moving quickly enough to crush student demonstrations more than two years ago. (Hu's death on April 15 sparked the first demonstrations of the past tumultuous month.) But in Tiananmen, Zhao did not go out of his way to avoid Hu's mistake. His eyes welling with tears, he acknowledged the patriotism of the students. "I came too late, too late," a student quoted him as saying. "I should be criticized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: State of Siege | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Administration officials contend that an expansion of federal prisons, as well as recent changes in the law, will ease the burden on hard-pressed state and local officials by making it easier to charge drug offenders under federal statutes. Federal prosecutors are instructed to avoid offering plea bargains in such cases, making a prison term harder to dodge. Says White House aide Roger Porter, who helped design the package: "The people who are committing these crimes are not dumb. They know what the chances are of getting caught and getting sent to prison, and as we increase those odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Bulging Prisons | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...being hit with so many zoning petitions, and we felt that if they would be a little more up-front, we could avoid that problem," Russell said...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Activists Offer Other Designs for Gulf Site | 5/24/1989 | See Source »

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