Word: eschewing
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...seem to have moved, without skipping a beat, from blaming our parents for the ills of society to blaming our children," observes Thomas Hine, author of The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. "We want them to embody virtues we only rarely practice. We want them to eschew habits we've never managed to break...
...predecessor, Junior Quarterback John Shaffer recalls, "Chuck Fusina once said that if Coach Paterno could get away with it, he'd remove the numbers from the jerseys." Before marching unbeaten into Miami's Orange Bowl last week, the players of the No. 1 team in the nation voted to eschew the traditional orange ornament on their epaulets. Co-Captain Todd Moules explained it would "violate the dignity" of the Penn State uniform. "That made me proud," said...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) is in the red for a near-five-figure sum. But although the negotiation fees were unavoidable expenses as the UC sought to secure a top-shelf act, Havana on the Harbor was an unmitigated waste of student money. The UC, and especially the CLC, must eschew overly risky endeavors as they attempt to provide Harvard students with alternative social events...
...home fighting for my (king's) life, would be stark raving mad by now. I suspect that I am not. I like to tell myself that I am in pretty sane company. The game certainly has its pantheon of upstanding citizens. While ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin preferred to eschew the Paris opera for chess at the Caf? de la R?gence. (Excellent choice.) Napoleon played, although to judge by one of his games, a diagrammed and illustrated copy of which hangs in my office, he was a far better general. Nabokov was a fine player and renowned composer of chess...
...large part of the problem is cultural. The rules that govern behavior on the Net were set by computer hackers who largely eschew formal rules. Instead, most computer wizards subscribe to a sort of anarchistic ethic, stated most succinctly in Steven Levy's Hackers. Among its tenets...