Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is, however, an unfortunate habit of providing it the afternoon of the vote," Geer said. "We're hoping to avoid that situation...
Hazelwood, who fled Alaska soon after the accident to avoid arrest on drunken-piloting charges, finally turned himself in last week near his home on Long Island. He was initially held on $1 million bail, a figure 40 times higher than prosecutors had recommended. But it was reduced to $25,000 on appeal, and Hazelwood was released. The FBI is looking into whether he can be charged with criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act. According to a report in the Anchorage Times last week, Hazelwood may have done more than just hand the ship over to an uncertified...
...might be better if the U.S. had a parliamentary system in which the Executive and Legislative branches were always under the same control. Not only would that avoid paralysis through partisan disagreement; it would also prevent the evasion of responsibility that is the real cause of paralysis in our Government. Negotiations on the budget, for example, are more like thumb wrestling than arm wrestling: the opponents don't really disagree about the destination; they just know that whoever goes first loses...
...malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work. Their mix of sharp insights, off- center observations and occasional wrong guesses eerily parallels the gradual mental deformation of the afflicted man, while the device of narration allows Congdon to avoid prolonged melodramatics. The script benefited from Roberta Levitow's simple, fluid staging and from an able ensemble that alternated as aliens or the family and friends simply by donning or removing sunglasses...
...four forgers and one aristocratic ne'er-do-well put away by his family) finally surrendered when they saw themselves confronting the rioters' artillery, which included a silver-inlaid cannon originally given to France by the King of Siam. And the commandant of the Bastille, who had tried to avoid further bloodshed, was subsequently hacked to death, his head stuck on a pike and paraded through the streets...