Word: eschews
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However, one bank-Cambridge Savings-continues to eschew electronic service despite the competition's success with it. Bank President David Noyes says that Cambridge Savings is not geared toward the customer attracted by the machines. But it has become the second-largest bank in the Square nevertheless, primarily through a high volume of retirement accounts and other long-term, high-yield savings investments that appeal to the wealthier sector of the Square community...
...obvious. They are followers of a sect that originated in Switzerland back in the 17th century and, in search of religious freedom, fled to England and Holland in the 18th century and moved to America in the 19th. In this day of home computers and space travel, the Amish eschew zippers as decadent, electricity as unnecessary and flush toilets as wasteful. They forgo the automobile in favor of sleek trotters and canvas-topped carriages of hickory wood. They use fine, sturdy workhorses to spread manure and plow their fields, which is what they are doing these days as spring spreads...
...rebels who have little to gain from under counting civilians killed. And they can voice their doubts about the Salvadoran left, especially since the dream of freedom in Sandinistan Nicaraugua seems less than realized. Yet we all must wonder, and ask, if the perspective our government wishes to eschew--that of a popular movement fighting for national liberation from their oppressive masters--is not, in fact, closest to the truth...
...basic decision between two directions. One is to really affirm and exploit the artistic side--the side I live in here. But I don't know--that would never sever the connection, never cut the umbilical cord--it would be like never leaving mother. Sometimes I just want to eschew acting--to be a statesman, to reconcile the U.S. and the USSR or something...
...candidate and wake up in the morning to find that be or at least his second story window, has changed allegiances. All of it makes little difference--the same neighborhood politicians win the same votes every two years and it's only the liberals who for the most part eschew signs, that are forever going in and out of fashion...