Word: shun
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Like just about everything else during the antiwar years, mathematics had become politicized at Michigan, and Kaczynski's thesis adviser was among those who signed a manifesto urging peers to shun military contractors. Yet no one, either at Michigan or Berkeley, remembers Ted's having any contact with the leftists he would later excoriate in his manifesto. "He did not go out of his way to make social contact," recalls his professor Peter Duren. "But he didn't strike me as being pathological. People in math are sometimes a bit strange. It goes with creativity." Despite almost five years' residency...
Officials in Beijing admit that the war games China has conducted near Taiwan over the past few weeks were meant to persuade Taiwan voters to shun any candidate advocating independence for Taiwan instead of the view that it is an integral part of China. That criticism was aimed directly at Lee, even though he has never directly questioned Taiwan's status as part of China. Lee's government has sought a more prominent role for Taiwan around the world, leading to suspicions that he might favor independence...
WHILE THE VIRTUEmeisters of the right enjoin us to post the Ten Commandments in our kitchen and shun the unchaste among our neighbors, the Clintons have been quietly scrambling to come up with a more congenial source of moral guidance. First there was Hillary's philosophical flirtation with Tikkun editor Michael Lerner, inventor of the indefinable "politics of meaning." Then there was Bill's midnight phone seminar with Ben Wattenberg, whose most recent book makes the unstartling claim that Values Matter Most. And popping up now and again among the Clintons' candidates for official moralist of the center-left...
Enforcing these rules on the insurance companies will not be easy, either. After all, you are asking them to take customers they are statistically certain to lose money on. There are myriad subtle and unsubtle ways the companies can attract the good risks and shun the bad ones. The Kassebaum-Kennedy bill contains detailed rules about, for example, when insurance companies will be permitted to go out of business. That's just one taste of the complexities ahead...
...Religious bodies should be free to shun and disclose [members]," Greenawalt added...