He has avoided debates with Mr. White and limited his attacks.
So far Laporta and his enemy have not met because Bartomeu has avoided debates attended by the other candidates.
But faced with criticism that he was trying to avoid debates, Mr. Bush relented on his objections about the sites.
Mr. Pataki avoided debates in his two previous campaigns for governor in 1994 and 1998 and has specifically refused to debate Mr. Golisano.
But, if Clinton has concluded that the lesson of 2008 is to avoid debates, she does not yet understand why she lost that night in Philadelphia.
This year, he has avoided debates unless they included all minor candidates, which has limited the time his opponents have to attack his record.
Had all the flak he'd been taking from the other candidates about avoiding debates driven the movie star off the deep end?
When James Baker threw the long bomb at the end of Sept. by having George Bush, who had been avoiding debates, suddenly call for four of them, he caught the Clinton campaign in mid-ambivalence.
The party that long acted as the standard-bearer for Mr. Ataturk, who established the modern Turkish state in 1923, now tries to avoid debates over the religious and the secular.
Mr. Perry, who avoided debates as governor and who has never weathered a significant attack from a candidate who is more conservative than he is, is losing the contest.
