Word: sidestepping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team of medical researchers has devised a technique that may eventually help parents sidestep this predicament. Scientists at the Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Northwestern University, led by geneticist Yury Verlinsky, say they can test for genetic defects in the human egg even before it has been fertilized. The technique could enable thousands of mothers with a family history of genetic disorders to avoid giving birth to an afflicted child without having to undergo abortion. Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, president of the American Society of Human Genetics, calls the new method "promising" but stresses that more testing is needed...
...School Dean Robert C. Clark seems determined to sidestep the political debates which made his appointment last winter so controversial...
...This is 1989, and this is Cambridge, and what you really have here is a segregated neighborhood," says council candidate Kenneth E. Reeves '72, who is endorsed by the CCA. Reeves says it is impossible to sidestep the issue of racism...
...sacrifices and efforts that people around the world are making for ideals which we all too often take for granted, it would be a particular shame if, at this moment in history, America were to remain mired in a Reagan-like state of complacency and continued to ignore or sidestep many of its own social and economic ills. The United States is viewed as a symbol of democracy by struggling peoples around the world, yet it seems unable to provide the promise of freedom of opportunity to many of its own citizens...
...proposed limited elections in the Palestinian territories as a step toward Middle East peace. That is not how the Palestinians there regard it. Last week more than 80 leaders from the West Bank and Gaza issued a statement rejecting the proposal as "a maneuver for the media" designed to sidestep the Palestine Liberation Organization and "ignore our political legitimacy as well as our legitimate aspirations...