Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company has set aside more than $500 million for legal costs, and could spare $1 billion without dipping into its bare minimum of capital. Under racketeering charges, the Government could freeze so much of Drexel's assets that the company would be paralyzed, but prosecutors may want to avoid a punishment that would cost innocent workers their jobs. Drexel is taking no chances: the firm already has 115 lawyers assigned to its case, compared with a total of about 35 at the SEC and the U.S. Attorney's office...
...late days of the race, Turner's pitch grew increasingly shrill. U.S. officials had remained silent to avoid any hint of interference in Canadian affairs. Yet when Ronald Reagan made a bland 30-second reference to the free- trade pact in a long-planned speech on global trade -- the President called the accord "an example of cooperation at its best" -- Turner described Reagan's words as a "major breach of courtesy between the two nations" and castigated Mulroney for getting "his good friend at head office, Ronald Reagan, to help him do a job he can't complete himself." Again...
...group with the help of Rachel Rossow, who works for the state's department of children and youth services in the oxymoronic capacity of consultant and saint. Except at this monthly meeting, in one of their homes, they don't talk about what they do. They use pseudonyms and avoid the word AIDS, especially around the children. They don't want neighbors shouting epithets at them. Some of them have not told their families because they want to be welcomed at Christmas dinner, or because they're afraid a daughter-in-law will stop bringing the grandchildren by. "They...
...families tend not to think about these possibilities, except at night, in bed. They seek comfort in aphorisms: "Does it make sense to avoid loving someone now because you might lose him later on? Do you stop going to the beach because summer's going to end?" They try to focus on what they have now: "He's a joy. It's wonderful having him here. This is going to be the best Christmas...
...into the penis can counteract stiffening of the corpora cavernosa and thus permit engorgement with blood. Dosage is carefully balanced to produce an erection that lasts about two hours, and patients learn how to inject themselves. Urologists recommend that drug use be limited to ten times a month to avoid scarring. Occasionally a patient will suffer a prolonged erection; impotence clinics provide 24-hour emergency service to administer an antidote. Cost of the therapy: $1,200 to $2,400 a year. Robert Batts, 40, a former policeman in Hull, Mass., who became impotent nine years ago after fracturing his back...