Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preaching statesmanship as he stumped for Republican candidates in Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio. "We must not rush to judgment," said the man who has already branded Clinton a misogynist and accused the President and his party of "the most systematic, deliberate obstruction of justice, cover-up and effort to avoid the truth that we have ever seen in American history." But while Gingrich talked about going slowly, the House was picking up its pace toward this week's vote. And as a G.O.P. strategist worried: "Once you set up an inquiry, how do you stop...
ATCQ have always sought, with remarkable success, to avoid mainstream trends, and they will leave the hip-hop world without one of its greatest creative forces. Yet their breakup may indeed be timely as their latest efforts seem to fall short of their past for which they may best be recognized and remembered...
...Iran's leadership, however, is divided over the clash with Afghanistan. "President Khatami has been trying to avoid being drawn into a shooting war, but hard-liners have been egging it on," says McGeary. And the fact that the hard-liners control the army makes it difficult for Khatami to keep a lid on things. But even if Iran does launch punitive strikes, its military knows better than to be drawn into the quagmire of an actual invasion of Afghanistan -- Mikhail Gorbachev is living proof of how much that does for one's domestic political standing...
Harvard is lucky that it has managed to avoid any binge-drinking tragedies. But this legislation should remind the College of the need to continue to educate...
...Milosevic is likely to wait until the last possible moment and then make enough concessions to avert an air strike," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Belgrade has already declared an end to its offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo, and will likely make further commitments to avoid attack. U.N. and NATO sources insist that Milosevic has not yet complied with international demands, but further concessions could leave NATO in a difficult position. Says Dowell, "Skeptics believe that if NATO had really been planning to intervene in Kosovo, it should have done so a long time...