Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid that problem, the CUE decided to extend sophomore status to candidates who have "satisfactorily completed one semester and are enrolled in the second semester of a foreign language...
...Verba Committee may have avoided the suggestion of strong measures to avoid losing the badly needed support of conservative faculty members. That is politically understandable. But in putting their recommendations in the purely administrative realm, the committee should have tried to ensure its structures would get results. An ideologue can get away with failed policy--a technocrat...
Duncombe went into a tirade, having to be restrained by teammate Scott Schewe in order to avoid a physical run-in with the referee. Duncombe was immediately removed from the game by Penn Coach Tom Schneider but, once he got to the bench area, found it within his dignity to hit a fan by kicking a chair into the stands...
Longer range, Bush is running a risk of subtly and unintentionally undermining his Administration. A primal commandment for new Presidents, particularly those faced with a Congress controlled by the opposition party: Thou shalt avoid early defeats. The opening days are the time when Congress and the public -- and foreign leaders -- are sizing up the new man. The perceptions they form early are likely to color their view of the President throughout his term...
...Havel was offered the chance to emigrate to the U.S. to avoid a conviction for subversive activities. He refused, saying, "The solution of this human situation does not lie in leaving it. Fourteen million people can't just go and leave Czechoslovakia empty." That decision won Havel the respect and admiration of many Czechs. Says Charter 77 activist Martin Palou: "Havel is a symbol of hope for the future, a man who can articulate many people's feelings...