Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take disciplinary action against him until this year because MIT--unlike Harvard--has a policy of not pursuing disciplinary cases until criminal investigations of the matter are resolved. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office charged the fraternity with manslaughter last year, but the fraternity disbanded in order to avoid the charge...
...Holbrooke will have to do a lot of repair work at the U.N., he?ll have even more work to do in Washington," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Right now the U.S. is perceived as having little focus or direction in its foreign policy, and its tendency to avoid dealing with crises in international forums for fear of being hamstrung has led to a situation where we?re perceived to simply not be listening to anybody else...
...SECOND CHANCE Forty-six states and the District of Columbia offer programs in which nonviolent youthful offenders avoid criminal trials and often permanent records by attending teen court. In many instances, the judge and jurors are peers of the accused kid and have the authority to mete out punishment for misbehavior like petty theft. Sentences can mean community service, such as collecting trash...
Hoping to avoid a hostel, I secured myself temporary accommodation in the vacated flat of some very distant relatives. These were wealthy people, so I figured I'd be spending my first week in style. Indeed, physical comfort abounded in their central London flat, but the place lacked one essential ingredient: people to talk to. Without so much as a television set, I found myself wandering around the flat in complete silence. They say that solitude is bliss, but with no one to talk to, I didn't quite know what to do with myself. Needless...
...bunk bed, I think, that did me in. As much as I may have learned from sharing a kitchen and living room with people I didn't know, there were some lessons I simply did not care to learn. Though I had managed to avoid Mike's room, I finally decided that a fulfilling summer experience did not require mastery of the art of falling asleep while the bed shakes back and forth. It may be fine for summer-camp or the first year of college, but I've already served my time in the bunk...