Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite such horror stories, teens deny that the dangers apply to them. Willix recalls that after one session in which he warned students to avoid the drugs, two 15-year-olds came up and said, "We hear what you're saying about steroids, but could you tell us which ones to use?" Rick of Los Angeles takes 40 mg of the chemicals daily, but insists, "I'm being careful. I'm taking what I think a doctor would prescribe." Has he seen one? "I will when...
...cases among non-drug-abusing heterosexuals in the U.S." In the forthcoming new edition of her book Mobilizing Against Aids, Nichols says that heterosexuals can have a "very low risk of contracting AIDS" if they use condoms and take the time to learn enough about their sexual partners to avoid drug abusers or the promiscuous...
...last two years of college can, therefore, be filled with only three chemistry half-courses if a student wishes. These requirements are what those of the other sciences ought to look like. A student must take what is necessary for a knowledge base, but that student can also avoid all upper-level courses...
...familiar to British fiction: barmy relatives, eccentric aristocrats, a public school -- the "English Gulag" -- where the headmaster enjoys hitting boys with sticks. As a teenager, Julian spends a summer in Brittany, where French is taught by Mme. de Normandin and sex by her daughter Barbara. Later, while trying to avoid work in the army, he learns another of life's essential lessons: "Not-really-trying is just as much effort as trying-really-hard. The only difference between the two modes of activity is that not-really-trying receives no reward...
...other political lesson Reagan has taught future leaders is how to avoid accountability by charming the national media until the crisis blows over. Some of his most valuable instructions include: learn how to control the media, so that they do not control you; keep a tight rein on press conferences so that important issues cannot be fully explored and you can't nailed; and always have a joke or anecdote to prove your point gently, no matter how strained the analogy or unbelievable the circumstances...