Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AGAIN and again the students confronted council members with the facts: the military has an explicit policy of barring gays and lesbians from service, the University has an anti-discrimination policy, and the council's own constitution compels the body, not only to avoid discrimination itself, but to actively fight against it in the Harvard community...
...have been arrested for alleged bribery or violation of securities law (so far no charges have been filed against any elected politician). But on another level the question is whether Japanese politics is so blatantly suffused with the passing of cash that it is practically impossible for officeholders to avoid the appearance, if not the actual commission, of impropriety. Said Takako Doi, chairwoman of the Japan Socialist Party: "The Diet as well as politicians have lost the trust and confidence of the public...
...make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John with the believer's certitude: "Dollar for dollar, crank is better than coke: coke is just a little sexier, but crank goes eight times as far." It is obviously a more profitable line for American traffickers inclined to avoid exporting their earnings to Colombia...
...before George Bush and a phalanx of congressional leaders strolled into the Rose Garden last Friday morning to announce that they had hammered out the 1990 budget concordat. Now, in updated fashion, Rose Garden rubbish can also be defined as "the unveiling of a cynical, bipartisan arrangement to avoid difficult decisions on the deficit through the use of artful arithmetic, Panglossian projections and other green-eyeshade gimmickry...
What the budget deal represents is the clearest evidence so far of the rules of engagement between the new President and the Democratic Congress. Unlike Ronald Reagan, who blamed Capitol Hill for everything but the depletion of the ozone layer, Bush by temperament and political calculation seems determined to avoid unnecessary and melodramatic showdowns. So far, the President has behaved like a loyal member of the congressional alumni association who wants to prove that he is still one of the guys despite his fancy new digs on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bush intends to block ambitious Democratic schemes to mandate that business...