Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your administration was slow in responding to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. When Exxon failed to fulfill its responsibility to clean up the mess, the federal government could have acted to avoid irrevocable damage...
...claim to speak for any other ROTC student. These are my own personal opinions. Each ROTC student has his or her own opinion of the events of the last few days. As members of an open, reflective university community, all faculty, students and staff have a responsibility to avoid stereotyping. One of the most terrifying things I have seen this week is broad-brush categorization of both student activists and students enrolled in ROTC programs. That should stop right...
Scandal, whose producers had to snip a few naughty bits from the Novotny orgy to avoid an X rating in the U.S., is wonderfully performed by Hurt (pained irony), McKellen (droll reserve) and, as Rice-Davies, Peter Fonda's daughter Bridget (comic acuity). The film names names and gets the tone right. ! This is a morally exhausted society, where every woman is a whore and every man a pimp or a trick until proved otherwise. It has no hero or heroine, only a victim: Stephen Ward, who loved trashy women and was betrayed by distinguished...
...lucrative -- and suspicious -- oil-well deal that few had known about before. More important, and more ominous for Wright, was the fact that all six Democrats on the committee joined the six Republicans in finding "reason to believe" that the Speaker had violated House ethics rules by failing to avoid "even the appearance of impropriety...
...condemn Jackson; they also undermine the importance of the Holocaust. Himmelfarb, for example, was willing to invoke the slaughter of six million Jews to improve the prospects for his political party. I believe others use Holocaust imagery against Jackson to vent racist attitudes. If this continues, how can we avoid the Holocaust becoming a political football...