Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...road to the verge of pointlessness, even months later as Bush methodically corroded his image and his lead. This high-minded approach was laudable, but Dukakis seemed not to understand the difference between going negative and adequately countering his opponent's scurrilous charges. The primaries also taught him to avoid saying anything of consequence. Bruce Babbitt talked about raising taxes, and he vanished. Richard Gephardt pounded protectionism, and he vanished too. Dukakis yammered on about partnerships and "good jobs at good wages," and he survived. This lesson too he carried into the general election, opting for bottomless bromides and hackneyed...
More important, to avoid serious problems later, this next President will have to move quickly to make peace with Congress. Enormous budget problems, escalating constantly, promise to bedevil Bush each year. The first major stylistic difference between Reagan and Bush will probably be evident in relations with Capitol Hill. While Reagan happily took on the Democrats, trying to eke out progress via confrontation, Bush prefers conciliation. Some Bush insiders predict a major outreach to congressional leaders almost immediately, an attempt to establish an era of good feelings with a bipartisan consensus on a problem posing a serious threat...
...noteworthy film to mediocrity. College students may accept Thompson's version of the Woodstock era, since we weren't there, but it's hard not to think that he isn't just looking back through rose-colored glasses at the good old days when he was trying to avoid the draft and having a great time doing...
...truths rather than accepting them, we follow a well-worn path to the climate of unreasoning fear and intolerance that allows this dark side to breed and create such injustices as slavery and genocide. Only by accepting the truths of the past and understanding how they unfolded can we avoid repeating our greatest failures...
...apparent target was President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, 50, member of a well-known Maldivian family who was re-elected in September to a third five- year term. The rebels literally had the government on the run: Gayoom and several Cabinet members fled from house to house to avoid capture during the 18-hour invasion...