Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone, there was laughter coming from the truck halfway down the street and I was covered in black sludgy water, apparently from the mud puddle that had been in the gutter at my feet just moments before and which I had made a careful mental note to avoid...
Lapham, 53, speaks with some authority, since he has spent much of his life in nodding acquaintance with the rich. He grew up in a well-to-do, influential San Francisco family, and he attended schools (Hotchkiss, Yale) where mixing with the scions of wealth was hard to avoid. After choosing journalism as his life's work, he discovered that financiers, corporate chiefs and politicians were happy to let him trail along in their retinues. Lapham's background and his access to the mighty have given him a privileged perch from which to view the past few decades...
...stay out of the sun, cut back on drinking and stop smoking. They stress that it is never too late to adopt better habits. A person of 70 who stops smoking immediately reduces the risk of developing heart disease. The elderly should follow general principles of a sound diet: avoid foods rich in cholesterol or saturated fat, such as eggs and beef, and eat more chicken and fish. Seniors should stress high-fiber foods, including whole-grain cereals and many fruits, and items rich in vitamins A and C, such as broccoli and cantaloupe...
...exact long study hours as well as a strict social code, are opening at the rate of one a day, a movement surpassed earlier only by Roman Catholic parochial schools, which raised poor immigrants to high educational levels. The Christian schools, like the original Catholic ones, are founded to avoid the taint of irreligiosity in public schools...
Such criticism stings O.C.O., which insists that it has simply been trying to find a way to avoid the sea of red ink that Montreal faced after the 1976 Games. Because O.C.O. almost certainly will achieve that, as long as most sponsors believe they will get their money's worth, the Olympic marriage with commercialism will continue. Organizers of this summer's Seoul Olympics have already pulled in $180 million worth of sponsorships...