Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Plans to expand graduate student housing are one example of the University's continuing interaction with local government, an area where Harvard would like to avoid any future friction...
...demographic and cultural problems. Grandma's cohort, traditionally an easy audience and big card buyers, is dying off. Female boomers buy cards, but they're quite diverse in sensibility and ethnicity, so the one-size-fits-all approach isn't working. Boomer men, much like their fathers, avoid card racks for all but the most mandatory occasion, like birthdays and major relationship screwups. For Generations X and Y, paper cards may as well be stone tablets...
...Number of U.S. residents who earn more than $200,000 a year and avoid paying any tax, thanks to tax-exempt interest...
Bass said the public feels the NATO waited too long during the ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serbs before intervening. Now, he said, the U.S. wants to avoid making the same mistake in this new Balkan conflict...
...maybe there was no way for the Hemingway Centennial Conference, held this past weekend at the John. F. Kennedy Library, which also houses Hemingway's archived papers, to avoid the iconic Hemingway. The conference assembled many of the world's greatest living authors to "celebrate Hemingway's life" and to "assess the nature of Hemingway's influence on world literature" through the discussion of "significant themes in Hemingway's writing career including Africa, war, nature, creativity and despair." The many panelists were great writers and journeymen, both: the Nobel laureates Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Derek Walcott...