Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...step in the right direction, but an extremely timid one. The Government should be setting much higher goals. An even quicker way to curb fuel consumption would be to boost the gasoline tax, but Bush seems to be locked $ into his "Read my lips" campaign pledge to avoid new taxes...
Still, women at the top resist taking up women's issues, wanting to avoid being typed as single-issue advocates, or emphasizing one aspect of self, gender, over other aspects, such as career...
...women leaders cannot avoid gaining different perspectives on their way to the top, balancing a career with raising children, joining women's groups, experiencing safety threats, harrassment, or discrimination. "Even if she has spent her days rejecting the social imperatives of her gender identity...she will have experienced life as a female," said Mandel...
...Zanzibar at last relieves her work of a seeming pettiness and dullness. In the production that opened off-Broadway last week, she is aided by a superb cast, including Jane Alexander and Harris Yulin as the parents and Bethel Leslie as the dying aunt -- all established stars who delicately avoid star turns -- and the exceptional Clayton Barclay Jones and Angela Goethals as the children. Heidi Landesman's brilliantly simple sets fill a postage-stamp stage with bits of cloth to create a mountain, a river, a campsite and a twinkling night sky, capturing not physical essence but distilled recollection...
...government's placid tolerance of such heresies is largely a matter of timing. With 3,000 international delegates attending the annual meeting of the 47-member Asian Development Bank last week in the Great Hall of the People, within earshot of Tiananmen Square, officials wanted to avoid any unpleasantness. And the protest came just days before the scheduled May 15-18 summit meeting between Chinese officials and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...