Word: sidestepping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Please, may your lion's voice ever continue to roar forth enlightenment from the pages of The Crimson. If you roar loudly enough, you might be able to sidestep legitimate argument and confrontation with feminist thinkers, such as Simone de Beauvoir, who you call "yipping"--not to mention some of your feminist classmates...
...more intriguing question: What will become of Hasenfus? Before the trial began, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega hinted that the hapless gunrunner might be pardoned and released by Christmas. But since then some Sandinista militants and officials have taken a tougher stance. Last week Ortega seemed prepared to sidestep the issue and dump the problem of Hasenfus' future on Washington. In an interview with Mexican reporters, Ortega said he was waiting to see if the Reagan Administration would acknowledge responsibility for Hasenfus and his aborted mission...
...alternative to an appeals board is no new disciplinary body at all. If, however, University officials are unwilling to create a new body with appropriate powers and procedures, they can not just sidestep questions of fairness. The Administrative Board should receive the same sort of scrutiny and reevaluation that has been focused on the CRR for the last two years...
...course, needs to be able to prove Gaddafi's complicity in order to justify reprisals, particularly military measures. The lack of "hard evidence" is constantly cited as a pretext by uneasy allies seeking to sidestep firm measures against the supporters of terrorism. Not everyone was satisfied with what Washington felt it could safely reveal. West German intelligence officials, who were provided with abbreviated and heavily edited summaries of the intercepted transmissions, accepted that there was some Libyan complicity in the Berlin bombing but were unwilling to hang all the blame on Gaddafi...
...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...