Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also chaired the committee that dealt with the thorny question of a Third World Center in the late '70s. Campus minority leaders had demanded a student center for multicultural pursuits, but the University was anxious to avoid racial divisions...
...Clinton will still be standing. When the independent counsel Kenneth Starr makes his appearance this week before Hyde's committee, in the first congressional impeachment hearings since Watergate, Democrats will be hoping that Starr has no new bombshell. So will most Republicans. What both sides want badly is to avoid anything that would compel them to prolong an impeachment process that nearly everyone wants to be done with. The question...
...committed suicide by drinking hemlock. More recently, folks have suffered liver damage from sipping teas brewed from comfrey, an herb that is used in poultices and ointments to treat sprains and bruises and should never be taken internally. Special note to pregnant women and nursing mothers: you should avoid a number of herbs, including Echinacea, senna, comfrey and licorice...
Even with the ability to erase, AssociateDirector of the Office of Career Services Susan M.Vacca '76 says excessive mistakes meant a lot ofwasted time. To avoid such squandered effort, shesays the typist had to plan well, especially inanticipating footnotes that required specificplacement...
...event, chances are that you will catch them at dinner. Since Harvard grads, like so many other Americans, now eat anytime from 5:30 to 10 p.m., you can hardly avoid it. And dinnertime may be your most favorable opportunity--it either limits the length of your conversation or, conversely, renders people more likely to chat...