Word: sidestepping
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Idealism is useful inasmuch as it forces us to define our values and love them enough to fight for them. But it cannot be an excuse to sidestep the grim realities of war. We cannot allow our idealism to replace our vigor. By promising to fight we have to fight with our whole hearts...
Since Ken Starr and the House Republicans ended the year more unpopular than Clinton, the G.O.P. also needs to distance itself from its obsession with dislodging the President. Conservative activists maintain that there was no way to sidestep impeachment. "The conservative base would have imploded," says Ralph Reed, onetime head of the Christian Coalition who is now a consultant. "We would have gone into 2000 like a three-legged horse...
Double-blind placebo trials, of course, are standard procedure for drug developers, who know from long experience that 1 out of 3 test subjects feel better with only a sugar pill. Scientists sidestep the placebo effect in drug trials by dividing patients into two groups--giving one the real drug and the other a fake...
...account over the summer, is still too undecided about him. Ted Kennedy and Virginia's Charles Robb, who have their own histories with women, are unlikely to come forward aggressively on a matter like this. Robert Byrd of West Virginia has already said he would oppose any attempt to sidestep a trial, such as a quick route to censure. Senators with presidential ambitions, like Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, will have their own futures to consider...
...Since when is shutting down a peaceful conference, at which the most hateful topic of discussion was likely affirmative action's dismantling, a success? Have defenders of affirmative action now deemed it necessary to sidestep the system and rely on threat of force to remain politically viable...