Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Schultz is "tried" to avoid conviction for greater offenses, "My mother saved the front page of the Mirror with Mr. Schultz's smiling face and folded it so that just the picture showed, she laid it down in the carriage and brought a thread-bare blanket up to its chin...
...idea behind the conference--and the keynote speech on racism and the unaware--is that racism exists even among those who try to avoid it, Hernandez-Gravelle said. She added that this is the result of the subtle stereotyping on the basis of race that is made throughout our society...
...Harvard professor has turned down a position as head of the state Ethics Commission to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus Archibald Cox '34 said he declined the chair of the commission because he already heads Common Cause, a citizens' lobby group headquartered in Washington...
Wurman's prescriptions are sound enough: be a good listener, be a contrarian, avoid gratuitous precision, avoid cliches. He also makes some more or less fresh points: that all information is inherently selective and subjective, and that the mind is not an ultra-complicated computer but a place full of unprogrammable and meaningful lapses, quirks and non sequiturs. Yet as he approvingly predicts the proliferation of directories of directories and a new Secretary of Understanding in the Cabinet, Wurman seems to be suffering from Information Giddiness...
...recently, the barn was nearly useless for modern grain farming. Like most old barns, it contained stalls for livestock and horses -- the preindustrial tractors of agriculture -- and a cavernous hayloft for storing their fuel. Over time, the outmoded barn weathered and withered. But during the past 15 years, to avoid new construction costs, the Manchesters have braced the old roof, installed modern seed-conditioning machinery inside, applied a coat of white paint and given the barn a new working life...