Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fitzwater said "you know that names pop up,people weigh in and they have to go throughbackground checks. So, we just have to avoid theseconfirmations." The spokesman did confirm thatReagan aides spent much of the weekend discussingwho to nominate as Meese's successor...
...computers of advanced aircraft like the A320 are also programmed to prevent pilot error by limiting the plane's response to dangerous commands. But some pilots believe such safeguards could be a handicap in emergency situations that require sudden maneuvers, like those necessary to avoid a collision. Says John Mazor, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "A computer can only react to the possibilities that have been programmed into it." Some experts speculate that because the Airbus jet's wheels were down as it swooped over the air show, the computers might have been tricked into thinking...
...also have had in mind a few lawsuits that have been filed seeking damages from physicians who did not warn partners of AIDS victims. Gay rights groups and civil libertarians object that the rule will drive AIDS underground: if victims think doctors will expose them, they will simply avoid seeing physicians...
Hispanic-American culture stands where the past meets the future. The cultural meeting represents not just a Hispanic milestone, not simply a celebration at the crossroads. America transforms into pleasure what it cannot avoid. Hispanic-American culture of the sort that is now in evidence (the teen movie, the rock song) may exist in an hourglass, may in fact be irrelevant. The U.S. Border Patrol works through the night to arrest the flow of illegal immigrants over the border, even as Americans stand patiently in line for La Bamba. While Americans vote to declare, once and for all, that English...
Zobel disqualified herself last month during the pre-trial stage of the Gillette case because she and Mockler both sit on the University's governing boards. She said at the time that she wished to avoid the appearance of impropriety, but that she didn't doubt her ability to come to an impartial decision in the case...