Word: avoiding
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...vivid histories and a scholar's appreciation for Renaissance art yet knows the best place to start an early tapas crawl in Madrid if you have kids. His clear, hand-drawn maps are Pentagon-worthy; his hints about how to go directly to the best stuff at the Uffizi, avoid the crowds at Versailles and save money everywhere are guilt-free. He pushes his readers to picnic for lunch and save their money for dinner. He sketches out amusing walks through commercial quarters from Antibes to Venice that link the ancient world and the modern. And Steves is so keen...
BEYONCE says it's sexier when you avoid the gym. Easy...
...tell them to back off.' DANIEL HAUSER, a 13-year-old cancer patient from Minnesota, on critics who say he is too young to determine his course of treatment. Hauser briefly fled the state with his mother to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy, which violates his religious beliefs...
Another life insurer, TIAA-CREF, the largest U.S. education retirement fund, has long been criticized for its billion-dollar investments in tobacco stocks. It now allows clients to opt to avoid such equities through special socially conscious funds. This is an option nearly all insurers now include in their portfolios. "As a TIAA-CREF participant, you do not have to own shares in tobacco companies if you choose not to," says spokesman Chad Peterson...
...Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit - for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear. We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism...