Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pedestrian, a middle-aged man, had jumped forward to avoid the car but was flipped into the air by a glancing blow from the vehicle, said a Harvard student who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. The man's elbow broke the windshield of the car on impact, but he was talking and walking after the accident without any visible injuries...
...says. "I saw the kids at the end of the school day when the last thing they want to do is sit there while their friends are having fun." He says that one of the students he had been assigned to tutor would sneak out of school to avoid the sessions...
...gotten its way, putting all conceivable barriers in front of the union, it is high time to let the employees make their own choice. When filing its election petition yesterday, the union defined the bargaining unit in the same terms as the administration used in the past, to avoid further legal conflict. Harvard should abide by its own rules, as well...
Shortly after the Iran-contra scandal broke in late 1986, Nancy Reagan became concerned that her husband was not sufficiently alert to the political danger and arranged to have a few people brought in to explain things. To avoid publicity, the White House instructed the guests to report to the Treasury building. From there they were led through an underground tunnel to the adjacent White House. Robert S. Strauss, a former Democratic national chairman and also a frequent luncheon companion of the First Lady, was one of the group. He reports that he pulled no punches with the President...
...satirized with Dr. Strangelove glee. The pop-culture memory remains cluttered with the tendentious alarmism of the 1960s and with more recent, ham-fisted TV mega- epics such as World War III and The Day After. It is hard to see how any narrative on the subject could avoid being either dogged and dull or archly ironic and malicious. But Playwright Lee Blessing has brought it off. His A Walk in the Woods is a work of passion and power with the ring of political truth. It is not only the best of the few dramas to reach Broadway this...