The taboo has particular impacts on architecture, high and low, with an avoidance of issues that directly reinstate old practices.
But in Florida earlier this month, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, shielded by his service in Vietnam, came close: "Patriotism is not defined by avoidance of issues at home," he said.
Questions were adapted to assess the frequency of intrusive thoughts and avoidance of issues surrounding the specific event of that time-point: the PSA test, the biopsy, the negative biopsy result and, for the follow-up assessment, being tested for prostate cancer overall.
Request for the treatment from the patient or patient's family (1, 2), to satisfy the patient (7), lack of public standards about judging futility or forgoing treatment (13, 14), avoidance of legal issues (16), and communication issues (5, 6) were main reasons for providing treatments that physician-respondents judged futile (Table 3).
"Such approaches have the effect of contributing to the avoidance of important issues that people often confront in their efforts to become a successful team".
Avoidance of these issues has led to a report that is vague, which interferes with its usefulness.
As long as our leaders focus on parity, its absence remains an excuse for avoidance of real issues.
The reassurances offered by company officials, as quoted in the article, are notable for their avoidance of important issues: cumulative impacts, water disposal, true greenhouse emissions, and true economics.
For some, his greatest films are from the Third Reich period, when his deliberate avoidance of political issues forced him to adopt a highly personal approach to mainstream fare.
As long as we have two-choice, winner-take-all elections where the winner must be all things to at least half the people, today's marketing technology and expertise will make most campaigns a distasteful concoction of poll-driven sound bites, negative attacks and avoidance of important issues.
This is going to be an epochal fight — truly one that could determine whether we return to the difficult realities of governance and fiscal discipline, and thereby preserve the hope of remaining a great nation, or continue with partisanship and avoidance of vital issues, which will lead to economic breakdown.
