The administration wants to avoid a replay of the recession in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, when Governor Pataki and the Legislature put off taking action until early 2003, near the end of one fiscal year and the beginning of another, and had to deal with two deficits at once.
The allies want to avoid any replay of the civil war in the '90s that led hundreds of thousands of Afghans to flee.
It was not the patriotic choices (the "Most Famous American" and many other things American) that made them smile, but the new voting-machine installed to avoting-machine installedountodebavoidaftereplaypresidential electiof in 2000.
The rules were designed to avoid a replay of the last presidential race, when the Democratic fight between Mr. Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton energized voters and party activists.
DealBook » Federal Reserve to Release 'Stress Test' Results Over 2 Days | "By saying when and how it will disclose the results, the Fed is seeking to avoid a replay of the confusion that accompanied last year's results, when some banks complained of miscommunication with the central bank," The Wall Street Journal reports.
With a strike threatened for Aug. 1, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters capitalized on the company's eagerness to avoid a replay of the walkout in 1997 that stopped business for three weeks and caused United Parcel to lose $750 million and many longtime customers.
Throughout the election season, the goal for most political figures has been to avoid a replay of the tense wait for results that marred the presidential election in Florida last year.
And while polls there have shown Mr. Bush with a healthy lead, the campaign began moving today to avoid a replay of the jolt it suffered in New Hampshire.
Eager to avoid a replay of the previous auditions -- the producers had heard from more than 400 would-be Mr. Thomases, from contractors to a concert violinist -- they quietly auditioned several candidates, including architects and a developer.
Their hopes to avoid a replay of the 1934 midterm congressional election and to replicate the 1966 midterms that followed the long hot summer of racial explosions and simmering Vietnam tensions, seem to be working out badly for them so far, although Republican candidates in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho have nothing to worry about.
It was intense, to say the least: Big plays and bad calls, and a truly horrific injury, from which I had to cover my son's eyes to avoid the sycophantic amount of replays.
