Word: shun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...schools would be asked to exchange the security of tenure for a potentially lucrative equity stake in the company. Their base salary would be augmented by performance bonuses, a feature that could attract the type of highly motivated, career-oriented men and women who today tend to shun teaching in favor of better-paying professions. Whittle's application of free-market techniques to schooling is what most troubles his critics, who fear that the traditional interaction between teachers and students will get lost amid the high-tech gadgetry and the chase for profits...
While Gomes claims to shun the role ofspokesperson, students on both sides of thehomosexuality issue say the minister'sannouncement makes him a more political figure oncampus...
...prissy Jane (Jane Sperling) and her luggish fiancee Dink (Ron Weiner) coo at each other about becoming "moan and woof" and their upcoming "hiney-moon" in "A Frantic City." Jane must reject her "old toy-friend" Jerry, played by the slouching, smooth-talking Brent Johnstone, as must Dink shun the advances of Pam Shores' provocative Alas, before the couple can properly appreciate "encaged" life...
...pointed expression in the Pope's continued refusal to consider the ordination of women as priests. The Vatican's argument is that if Christ had wanted women priests or bishops, Mary above all would have become one. On the other hand, John Paul does not argue that women must shun careers just because Mary was a homebody. Although the Pope lauds Mary for her submissiveness, it is in relation to God, not to male-dominated society...
...even Hawthorne's friends would shun...