Word: sidestepped
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PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES don't exist. Instead, candidates agree to joint press conferences where they can answer (or sidestep) predictable and predigested questions. In these "debates" the candidates simply restate party platforms. Even the media panelists realize this sad state of affairs; they meekly protest, adding, "And could you please state specifics" to their questions...
...well, waste disposal is one of those problems that nobody in Washington wants responsibility for. A variety of inter agency reports and meetings have addressed the problems, but most of them are gathering dust on agency shelves. Up and down the Potomac, in fact, they're trying to sidestep the problem. Reactors and laboratories are generating hazardous materials at unprecedented rates--but nobody wants to play garbage-collector...
...zamboni of the mind has stopped, held fast in time by a tradition with seemingly little future. There is no way that any lover of Harvard hockey will let it travel and kid himself about the prospects for next year. Similarly, there is no way that Harvard hockey can sidestep the serious problems of talent and performance that have slowly dispatched it from the pedestal of collegiate hockey. ECAC DIVISION ONE FINAL STANDINGS 1. Boston University 17-4-2 2. New Hampshire 17-5-3 3. Cornell 16-6-0 4. Dartmouth 14-7-0 5. Clarkson...
...Look fell victim to television competition, rising postal rates and the high cost of subscription renewals. The new Look hopes to sidestep such difficulties, concentrating on single-copy sales from racks in supermarkets, shopping centers and stationery stores. Look people regard LIFE's revival four months ago as an encouraging icebreaker. If LIFE does well, they hold, Look may too. So far the LIFE signs are good. The Time Inc. monthly magazine just raised its ad guaranteed circulation to 1 million, from...
...Pope could sidestep this touchy issue by avoiding Puebla, but he has evidently never doubted the need to attend. He was guided in part by his interest in human rights and in part by the fact that some 300 million of the world's 700 million Catholics live in the region. As he observed in his Christmas address to the College of Cardinals: "Some say that the future of the church will be decided in Latin America, and there is some truth in that...