Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Double plays. Pitchers love them when they need to get out of a jam. Hitters just want to avoid them. In 1988, which hitter led the American League in grounding out into the most double plays...
These essays prompt the sort of indulgence one gives a child. They avoid heaviness. The older Updike, however, takes himself too seriously. Ironically, he childishly exaggerates the importance of events in his maturity more than in his youth...
...mechanics, baggage handlers and other members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Eastern last week became the largest airline in history to go bust. And even as Lorenzo vowed to bring Eastern out of bankruptcy stronger than ever, he conceded that it might be impossible to avoid selling off more of Eastern's already depleted assets...
...woman ground swell, however, has exposed a growing skittishness among advertisers. While many are "tonnage" buyers, willing to place their commercials anywhere, others carefully select shows in order to avoid being associated with questionable material. With the proliferation of so-called trash TV, the number of troublesome programs has multiplied. Among them are such tabloid shows as A Current Affair, Inside Edition and The Reporters; sensational talk programs like The Morton Downey Jr. Show and Geraldo; and occasional over-the-edge network offerings like Geraldo Rivera's NBC special last fall on Satanism...
...wrongly branded as well. Life- and medical-insurance companies might one day require that potential customers have their genes screened, presumably so that people likely to develop fatal or disabling diseases could be charged higher premiums, or possibly turned away. Insurers have already used a similar policy to avoid covering individuals at high risk for AIDS, a practice now banned in several states. Unless it is prohibited by law, employers could conceivably try to guarantee a healthy work force by asking job applicants to submit to genetic screening. Clearly, there is a potential for widespread discrimination against those whose genes...