Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Replogle says she is so self-conscious about her Powerbook that she sometimes feels guilty using it even when no one else is around. And Peggy H. Nguyen '94, who uses her Powerbook to take notes in lecture, says some students purposely avoid sitting next to her because she is carrying a Powerbook...
...avoid a conflict of interest, members are not allowed to vote on matters that affect the organization from which they come, King said...
...Nobody seems to know what NATO will do either -- except everything it can to avoid pulling the trigger. The U.S. military certainly has grave doubts about the mission. "Pentagon officials aren't sure that air strikes can change Milosevic's behavior," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "We're threatening to break a lot of his stuff, but what do we do if he decides to tough it out? The problem is that right now, Milosevic holds all the cards." Soon, he might even have to show them...
...Alabama, Sprewell hooked up his alarm clock to thunderous stereo speakers to avoid missing the team's early-morning practices. He had discipline, but it was a fragile discipline shaped exclusively by basketball...