Word: shun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market. For Dominicans accustomed to making an average of $85 a month, Puerto Rico is a relative paradise. Many of the male newcomers work as mechanics or construction laborers. The women typically find jobs as housekeepers or cooks at open-air food stands, positions that Puerto Ricans tend to shun. Though the Dominican economy may benefit from such emigration, officials in Santo Domingo discourage citizens from making the perilous trip. Toward that end, they announced plans for a television commercial featuring photos of the blood-stained waters holding the bodies of those who died last week trying to make...
...Most students at Harvard use the most commonsentence forms again and again," Marius writes."They often shun active verbs and in consequenceproduce writing that lies inert on the page...
...variety of their methods, private investors have many common guidelines. For example, many small investors avoid buying individual foreign stocks, since they may have trouble getting timely information about the securities. Small-time investors generally shun stock options, futures and other risky instruments unless they have carefully constructed a way to use them as a hedge against losses in their common-stock portfolio. Finally, they frequently establish predetermined selling points at which they will dump a stock to cut their losses or capture their gains. Says Melissa Lamb, 28, a Manhattan real-estate broker who is learning the hard...
...fear to use our influence. We shun ourmoral leadership. We have isolated ourselves fromthe most dramatic chapter in the story of freedomaround the world," he said. Biden added that hehimself would deal with moderate Black leaders,including Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu...
...troublesome is whether or not the national tolerance for error is being so reduced by the unrelenting pursuit such as we ((the Tower board)) undertook, and such as the media undertook, that respect of the people for Government itself suffers unjustly. Disdain for Government leads the best people to shun service in that Government; less talented people are even more prone to provide grist for investigative reporting, which further tarnishes the image of Government...