Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrified that he would be arrested for the death of his girlfriend, whom he'd helped get an illegal abortion at the hands of a "back-alley butcher." Powell was moved by the youth's dilemma--and by the injustice and risk that a more affluent couple could avoid by going to a state where abortions were legal. Though the consummate judge, Powell dealt with people as they were, not just as clients or employees or adversaries. He listened to all sides; he understood the theoretical as well as the practical; he knew that sometimes how one reached a decision...
...noteworthy return in that it invests in a broader range of stocks that makes it less risky. The open-end funds are run much like the highly successful institutional funds, which are focused on the long term, engage in limited trading to keep costs down and avoid anything exotic. "There won't be any big surprises," says Martin Leibowitz, the firm's chief investment officer and a friend of John Bogle, the penny-pinching chief at fund company Vanguard...
...want to save money and avoid dealing with a Web hosting service, however, one alternative is to get a friend to host your domain. Try at work. If your business is on the Net, ask your system administrator if you could list its servers as the hosts. Since this costs the hosting site nothing--it's strictly a routing and administrative function that allows people to find your site--it's worth a try. My friend Jeff Pulver, who has a T1 line that connects his home to the Internet at 1.5 million bits per second, agreed to host quittner.com...
Need some cheap advice from a market expert? Judging by the just disclosed portfolio of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, short-term T bills are the way to go. Though Greenspan's choices reflect his desire to "avoid any conflicts of interest" and "have nothing to do with the market," it's no surprise that the notorious skeptic would invest in bonds. Caution, though, doesn't come cheap; in 1997 one-year T bills had a 6.2% return, while the S&P 500 rose...
Those trips back and forth to the dressing room with armloads of clothing to try on and mix and match put a real drag on shopping sprees. In September you can avoid the hassle with a $40 software investment. Fashion Trip from ModaCAD lets teens test different outfits on a virtual mannequin. Shoppers can try out clothes from more than a dozen makers--including Esprit, Levis and Wet Seal. Too bad there's no guarantee the outfits will look as good on you as they do onscreen...