IN our last episode, the Haggler tried, without success, to avoid the middle seat on two cross-country flights.
They can choose any subject they want to write about, within the bounds of decency and appropriate journalistic inquiry (although we do ask them, with varying degrees of lack of success, to avoid directly endorsing a candidate for office).
WASHINGTON — President Obama uttered three words on Thursday that many of his 43 predecessors twisted themselves into knots trying with varying degrees of success to avoid: "I was wrong".
These governors are, at least by comparison to lawmakers in Washington, capable and popular leaders, pushing through major legislation and trying to figure out ways, with mixed success, to avoid the partisan wrangling that has come to symbolize Washington.
News reports of Mr. McCall's acceptance of an award at the annual Congressional Black Caucus dinner Saturday night might have once again pinned on him the very label he has tried, with mixed success, to avoid: that of prominent black candidate.
Geoffrey Garin, a chief pollster for House Democrats, argued, "George W. Bush has been trying very hard and with some success to avoid any debate about big philosophical questions, but Medicare really is a chance for Democrats to raise a question about the role of government versus the private sector, on a topic where voters have already made a pretty clear decision".
Coming so soon after Seattle, any meeting would need to be a stunning success to avoid being judged a catastrophic failure, and would also run the risk of a repeat of Seattle-style chaos.At their summit last month in Okinawa, the richest nations endorsed a call from Yoshio Mori, Japan's prime minister, for a new round.
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Amundsen mortgaged his house to keep the expedition afloat; heavily in debt, he was now wholly dependent on the expedition's success to avoid personal financial ruin.
