Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question now is not whether NATO should have taken an interest in the Balkans in the first place, or whether idealism is superior to realpolitik; the question is how to avoid the genocide of the Kosovar Albanians, and whether NATO is willing to take the necessary steps to that...
President Clinton's initial promise to avoid using ground troops suggested that the U.S. was timid about fighting. Clinton's decision to bomb and only bomb reads like a compulsion to do something but a reluctance to do anything final. Bombing seems to be activity for the sake of activity--it lacks the assertiveness and conviction of ground warfare...
...spread, removal of the tumor and some surrounding tissue (a lumpectomy) followed by radiation is just as effective as taking off the entire breast. Thanks to women's increasing vigilance, some 85% of the 175,000 cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year are found early enough to avoid radical surgery...
...necessarily. There are situations in which mastectomies still make sense. An estimated 1 in 2 women diagnosed with breast cancer, many of whom could be treated with a lumpectomy, nonetheless choose a mastectomy, either for added reassurance or to avoid radiation's side effects. And some women at high risk for breast cancer reduce the odds by having their breasts removed protectively, even before they get the disease. That doesn't bother Motichka. At least, she says, "they're making their own decisions...
...years as "a boozer, a user and a loser." Just what did the network find funny? The name of the school's African-American principal, Mr. Blackman? The catatonic geriatric behind the wheel of a car? Maybe Sedaris' single comic affectation, a grotesque overbite? Take Mom's advice: Avoid Strangers with Candy...