Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time for us to put this bad logic down. It is one thing for us to call ourselves reformed, and it is another thing for us to actually reform our approach. This year, more than any other, we must make good on all of our promises to avoid the mistakes of the past...
...want to choose which path to take until the election results are in. And so both parties wait for the returns, aware that the Holy Grail of higher turnout brings with it no guarantees of deliverance from this mess. Most of Gingrich's advisers say he would prefer to avoid the unpleasant spectacle of impeachment proceedings. He knows Clinton will survive, and he prefers that to President Gore anyway. But he has no easy way out. It is not at all clear that 20 extra seats after November would make resolution of the mess any easier; indeed...
Calvino does his best to avoid these traps and usually succeeds. I am pleased to note, for example, that Pin learns nothing in the course of the novel. In writing about Calvino upon his death in 1985, Gore Vidal said, "He looks; he describes; he has a scientist's respect for data (the opposite of the surrealist or fantasist)." He is here absolutely right; nothing that happens is unbelievable (although a prison escape strains credulity), but it is all quite weird and foreign to a life lived outside of wartime...
Economics Professor Dwight H. Perkins has also been involved in international affairs, advising both China and Vietnam on how to avoid future problems...
...alone. Your stressed brain throbs with the frustration of sleepless nights, your heart beats faster and faster and faster until you just can't take it anymore and you run out into the Yard and take off all of your clothes and scream "What Makes Black Music Black?!" To avoid this sort of embarrassing situation, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts and Dialogues on Race Series is endeavoring to answer the question with a series of more subdued events. A jazz concert featuring Don Braden, Cercie Miller, Dominique Eade, Ron Mahdi, Tim Ray and Ron Savage kicks off the program, followed...