Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prime Minister presided over a spectacularly corrupt regime. General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, a former army chief turned politician, wasted billions propping up ailing finance companies owned by political cronies. When the currency crumbled under the pressure, he chose to throw good money after bad in a futile attempt to avoid a humiliating devaluation. Malaysia's cantankerous, 72-year-old Premier Mahathir Mohamad, strongman for 17 years, ran a one-man show with total control over the country's economic machinery. In his obsessive search for respect from the West, he spent lavishly to build the biggest and the tallest--the world...
These leaders were guilty as well of believing there was something unique about Asia's economic growth: that it would continue unabated regardless of leadership or official policy. That myth was perfected in Japan, where the entire ruling system was set up to avoid the necessity of any single person's taking responsibility for anything. The country's clan politics worked well enough when there were sufficient spoils to spread around. But when trouble loomed, there was no mechanism to produce a leader capable of making difficult decisions in the national interest...
...Greek system is important to many alumni, and with a capital campaign on the way, the administration wants to avoid the perception of an assault on the historically revered fraternity system...
...soon as authorities evacuate a storm-threatened town, reporters arrive to demonstrate exactly why the town was evacuated. Bonnie showed that while some embrace the tempest, others avoid it in expensive raingear. Continuing our highly praised, service-oriented journalism, we critique the performances...
...harsh yet enticing landscape. His daughter Vivian (Natasha Lyonne)--15 and squirmy with all the anxieties, social and sexual, of her age group--knows better. The swell school district isn't worth what living in the slums of Beverly Hills entails: decamping from sleazy apartments at night to avoid the rent, taking in a crazy cousin (Marisa Tomei) in hopes her father will support the Abramowitzes in a style to which they're unaccustomed. There's farce in Jenkins' reflections on her adolescence. But there's also a tough-tender authenticity in her film that sets it poignantly apart from...