Word: eschewing
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...Soto's thesis is simple, registering extralegal property is not. Third World elites, who often control legislatures, tend to eschew reforms that empower workers. But De Soto, a former governor of Peru's central bank, insists the plan showed success while he was ex-President Fujimori's chief of staff in the early 1990s. Some 276,000 underground businesses--including large bus-assembly plants--were legally titled, helping generate $1.2 billion in new tax revenue...
...story. At the end of each day, Japanese soldiers jog with Canadians through the apple orchard outside the base, in the shadow of the balloon-shaped radar antennae of the Israeli listening station on Mount Avital. They play baseball with the Canadians and soccer with the Poles. Canadian soldiers eschew the beef lasagne of their own cooks and chow down in the noisy mess hall on tempura and miso soup prepared by Furusho's three cooks...
Some people criticize Bikram for being too arduous, but as with all yoga, much of the responsibility falls to the individual. I welcome this opportunity to eschew faster, higher and stronger in favor of deeper. In this regard, the simplicity of Bikram's poses is one more way to avoid being distracted from myself...
...Some people criticize Bikram for being too arduous, but as with all yoga, much of the responsibility falls to the individual. I welcome this opportunity to eschew faster, higher and stronger in favor of deeper. In this regard, the simplicity of Bikram's poses is one more way to avoid being distracted from myself...
...anti-romantics of the Sixth Generation renounce glamour. They eschew the star quality that marks Hollywood and Hong Kong; indeed, they often do without professional actors. Their films look less like paintings than placards. No stately settings, no echoes of the fine arts, no images that pop your eyes in wonder. The very notion of masterpiece-making seems dilettantish to the rebels of the sixth form. Here are film kids in revolt?against the government, of course, but also against their sanctified big brothers. Speaking of the Fifth Generation, Zhang Yuan has said, "They had a slogan: 'Not like...