Word: sidesteps
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Helping a country sidestep revolution, building a new nation, promoting world peace--these are large achievements. Few activities of the Peace Corps seem to merit such grandiose description. In the Dominican Republic, volunteers in urban-development projects are organizing neighborhood clinics or helping to obtain piped water for a barrio; those in rural-community development are setting up agrarian leagues and advising on local school construction...
Question of Conscience? Paul thus rejected, for the present at least, the recommendations submitted last June by his pontifical commission on birth control. A majority of the commission, headed by seven cardinals, proposed that the church take a new tack in its theology of marriage that would sidestep the natural-law approach of Pius XI and Pius XII. Under their norms, any means of birth control apart from the rhythm method and sexual abstinence was said to violate God's inflexible rules for human behavior by frustrating the principal purpose of the sex act, procreation...
...fault at all are the medical societies. Since S O S is an advertised service, the societies claim that the doctors involved are practicing medicine commercially. The doctors respond that they are treating patients who otherwise are ignored. As for the commercialism charge, the SOS doctors are trying to sidestep it by keeping their names secret...
...each House in strict secrecy, preventing the "popularity contest" which gave some Houses undeserved bad reputations. The first step in the process would be for Masters in Houses with few first choice applicants to choose as many freshmen as they needed from the common pool. The Masters could thereby sidestep the unsavory practice of "raiding" a popular House's first choice roster, and at the same time build up their own Houses by claiming the cream of the freshman class...
...notably, the U.S.'s Russell Oberlin. To help perpetuate the species, Deller is grooming his older son Mark, 27, to assume his mantle: "His voice is exactly like mine-uncannily so." The resurgence of baroque music, Deller thinks, is led by the younger generation, who "have chosen to sidestep the romantics. They no longer want their ears invaded by the oozy wash of sound. They prefer instead to hear counter point, to hear the architecture of the music. It is a restatement of a fundamental truth that speaks across the centuries." And somehow it speaks most truly...