Word: shun
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...caught, most athletes would use drugs even with a high risk of side effects. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, I studied the results of a poll of some 600 Australian Year 11 students. Any hope that the next generation of athletes would universally shun drugs was dashed: more than half wouldn't rule out using them if they were safe and undetectable; 3% of boys said they'd be prepared to die at 40 in return for a gold medal...
...caught, most athletes would use drugs even with a high risk of side effects. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, I studied the results of a poll of some 600 Australian Year 11 students. Any hope that the next generation of athletes would universally shun drugs was dashed: more than half wouldn't rule out using them if they were safe and undetectable; 3% of boys said they'd be prepared to die at 40 in return for a gold medal...
...maps at all. Cavers tend to "look at their feet and not at the walls, so there could be other art work down there," Clarke says as he adjusts his hard hat before going inside. Years of studying the spiders, beetles, aquatic snails and other invertebrates that shun the sunlit world have led Clarke into many of Tasmania's darkest corners, often by very uncomfortable routes. So for a caver who thinks nothing of slithering on his belly along an underground tunnel just wide enough to fit his body, with only his head above water - "we call it roof sniffing...
...French." She has said, however, that she finds it "paradoxical" that homosexuals would want to claim the right to "a traditional bourgeois structure" like marriage. But such arguments ignore the fact that homosexuals are simply asking for what heterosexuals have always had - the right to embrace or shun this "bourgeois structure" and not have a government make the decision for them. Mamère's initiative has in any case given the political class in France something to chatter about. But it's hardly a major act of civil disobedience. The Green leader's legal advisors point out that...
...Even if the Hollywood hierachy is vexed or embarrassed by the Gospel according to Gibson-you may expect a few barbs thrown his way by Billy Crystal this Sunday at the Academy Awards- it is unlikely to shun him. This is, after all, a business that hires actors and directors who happen to be drug addicts, spouse-abusers and convicted felons. One man convicted of child molestation has directed films for Disney and New Line. Gibson's criminal rap sheet is clean; he is guilty only of standing by his deluded old man and expressing opinions that are less popular...