Word: sidestep
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...high court can sidestep the issue this time by remanding the case for trial on whether Vinson was forced to work in a "sexually hostile environment." The first harassment cases in the late 1970s focused on quid pro quo claims that employees were asked to provide sex to keep their jobs or get better ones. Recently courts have followed the lead of the EEOC and ruled that an atmosphere of sexual aggression, even without economic injury, constitutes harassment...
...speech last week, Nakasone seemed to be trying to sidestep the bureaucracy with a direct appeal to Japanese businessmen and the public. Some critics thought that Nakasone's call for people to spend $100 on imports was a public relations ploy designed for American consumption, but many Japanese commentators considered it a reasonable and serious proposal. Despite charges that Japanese markets are closed, a wealth of American products are readily available in most Japanese cities and towns. Among them: B.F. Goodrich tires, Mercury outboard motors, Corning cookware, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Avon cosmetics, Simmons mattresses and Apple computers...
...Street Journal and especial by Joel Brinkley of The New York Times. Secret and important intelligence reports trickle out with suspicious regularity Unnamed sources contradict even discredit, the Administration line. Are White House aides, along with career CIA and State Department officials worried about their own futures trying to sidestep the political morass of Central America by preventing Reagan from being Reagan in Nicaragua...
...procedures used to deal with the MIT student's complaint at the very least shows that Harvard is not yet ready to deal in good faith with current or future victims of harassment. The University's claim that privacy interests bar any further comment on the case neatly sidestep the public issues at stake. Harvard's ongoing silence about crucial aspects of the Hibbs case reeks of cynical damage control...
Japan displays arrogance in its flagrant disregard of the International Whaling Commission's ban on sperm-whale hunting. The U.S., however, is equally at fault in deciding to sidestep its own statutes and "cut a deal" with the Japanese...