Word: avoiding
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...delicate situations which have held a nuclear threat and emerge from those dilemmas relatively unscathed. While he writes that "these examples ought to never by repeated," he adds that we can remain comforted by the fact that policymakers have so far had the personal ability and administrative support to avoid disaster...
Desmond, 30, on his first posting abroad, is not always under fire. He was showered with rose petals while covering the national elections in Pakistan that brought Benazir Bhutto to power. An Amherst College graduate who joined TIME as a reporter-researcher five years ago, he often can't avoid the dark side of his beat. In chronicling another election in Sri Lanka, Desmond spent days trying to make contact with violent Sinhalese rebels, whose campaign of murder frightened many voters away from the polls. Now back in New Delhi, Desmond will continue to keep TIME...
...does lend perspective, especially to a son of Connemara. "There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. But today I'm quite at home wandering those valleys and occasionally climbing a peak." So does he regret anything? "No." An actor's delicious pause. "Well, sure. I'm not a French singer...
...most observers are waiting for February 9, when Bush will unveil his budget plan, before passing final judgement. In the end, experts say Bush, like Reagan before him, will be measured by his ability to reduce the deficit and avoid a recession. Lacking a clear mandate for other policies, the Bush legacy may hinge solely on the balance sheet for 1989 through...
Quayle found especially valuable the tutoring of Democrat Mondale. Among other things, Mondale urged Quayle to avoid getting bogged down as head of dozens of presidential task forces and commissions. In Mondale's view, such assignments almost inevitably turn into trivial pursuits. It is no accident that most of Quayle's tutors were right of center. His instincts are deeply conservative, and though he insists he will not act as a "spear carrier" for the right, one conservative activist views him as a potential provider of "political intelligence" about what is going on in the Administration. Bush aides, however...