Hardstyle is usually something I avoid like an ornery bobcat, but the stage design of an angry cyclops face pulled me in.
This creates a depressing value proposition for leaders, managers and consultants, and it's one I avoid like the plague: A sort of expertise in witch hunting, helping organizations to ferret out and eliminate employees who don't know what they're doing, or who don't work efficiently.
"I avoided it like the plague, but a couple of times I had to go — maybe if it pertained to me, a good friend of mine got jumped — I had to go," he said.
"I avoided it like the plague throughout my entire career.
I avoided it like it was poison.
Unwilling to get attached, I avoided him like, well, the plague.
In terms of sectors, I avoid commodity-like businesses, so I have never owned cement or steel companies, which are capital-intensive businesses.
But despite my plan for defiance, and without realizing it, I avoided the bars like ex-lovers.
So for three years, I avoided tournament pools like the plague, licked my wounds and recovered in time to watch the Final Four.
"Back in college, I avoided these people like the plague because of their well-known racism, I'd call their strain 'hipster racism,'" she wrote.
