Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abused Warner on his way to sacking Linden. Unfortunately for Curry, the Crimson line was whistled for holding and his lone sack was negated in the record books. On the subsequent first-and-twenty play, Linden dropped back and under severe pressure threw the ball across the sideline to avoid another sack. This play too was called back for holding, leaving Harvard facing a daunting first-and-forty...
...rape counselor Nadja B. Gould said shecould "completely understand" the victim's desireto avoid reliving the rape on the witness stand...
...nothing stuck--except Monica. We can't avoid the scandal because it's become too personal. Although the President claims "it's nobody's business but ours," referring to his family, in this age of total media immersion, his business is our business. You can't invite someone into your home every night on TV, talk about him for years over dinner and maybe even vote for him without feeling involved when he takes such a disgraceful fall...
...like President Clinton, will do anything to avoid the prying eyes of self-righteous demons like Starr and his horde, who show such utter contempt for privacy. JOHN BROUWER Alliston...
WASHINGTON: Could it be true? Is President Clinton just about the only person in America who has managed to avoid reading any of the Starr report, as his deputy chief of staff John Podesta claims? It's a tidbit that betrays the siege mentality at the White House, where the leader of the free world is increasingly becoming the loneliest man in it. Clinton skipped even his regular church service Sunday (where his transgressions were the subject of the day's sermon), while his attorney David Kendall hit the talk shows to defend his client's indefensible semantic contortion -- that...