Word: avoiding
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...Mario Cuomo, the longest-serving governor of New York in modern history, stood in front of 1500 people and cried twice. Not bawling out loud, of course. A person who held the same office held by both presidential Roosevelts tends to make an effort to avoid sobbing during a speech. But the tears in his eyes and in his voice were obvious twice, visible and audible even in the adjacent rooms on Simulcast. No matter what you might think of Cuomo, or even if you couldn't care less about Cuomo, you have to admit that it's kind...
...speed at which it was looked at wascertainly affected by [the talks]," Brock says."Harvard is extremely risk averse for good reason.Harvard has a very large endowment that someonewould like to get their hands on--it's fiscallyresponsible to avoid lawsuits...
...Among the 16 appointed regents at the time of the decision against quotas, three were black, three Hispanic, and two Asian. Two of the "virulent conservatives" who pushed most strongly for the ban were Ward Connerly, an African-American, who argued that quotas were used as an excuse to avoid improving the quality of education in inner-city schools, and Tirso del Junco, M.D., a Hispanic...
...verdict of generations to come is always risky. But of one outcome we can be reasonably certain. The first thing future textbooks will say about Bill Clinton is that he is the only elected President ever to be impeached. (Andrew Johnson was not elected. Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment.) This simple, singular fact will overpower other things for which Clinton might take credit: half a dozen years of unexampled prosperity; a balanced budget; a capture of the political middle from the Republicans; and persistent efforts to stop the killing in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Bosnia and Kosovo...
Though the effort to oust Clinton will prove highly damaging to Republicans, it may turn out in the long run to be of great historical benefit. Just as experience has taught us to try to avoid "another Vietnam," this episode will teach future Congresses to seek to avoid impeachments that lack popular support, are contrary to the national interest and are unwinnable. ROBERT H. WOLFE North Woodmere...