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As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.

Contact ... should be avoided as much as possible.

Current nitrogen recommendations assume four things: yield potential doesn't vary year after year, the yield level the soil will support without supplemental nitrogen is negligible, pre-plant nitrogen will be available throughout the growing season, and soil uniformity produces similar yield results across the field. Growers know that none of these assumptions are entirely accurate, and they can potentially be avoided using optical sensors.

Europe, partly because of the sort of political miracle it accomplished on the European continent, has developed a very strong faith in international institutions, international legal mechanisms, as the key to international order, and have really begun to view military power as an illegitimate form of activity, but in any case, something that is to be avoided at almost all costs.

I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.

These factors suggest the need for higher rates but, surprisingly, the bank avoided any explicit indications of the higher risk of demand-driven inflationary pressures.

The threat environment is constantly changing and static rules can quickly become outmoded or easily avoided by the fraudster.

The threat environment is constantly changing, and static rules can quickly become outmoded or easily avoided by the fraudster.

I've avoided every one of them, so I could get an education and have some sort of future when I come out.

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

I've avoided a lot of publicity over the years because I find it very hard to be articulate about either myself or work that I've done.

I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

Programmers now know that a lot of these problems can be avoided if they just wait until 10 o'clock to broadcast objectionable material.

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.

Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

Approximately 80 percent of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40 percent of cancer could be avoided through healthy diet, regular physical activity and avoidance of tobacco use.

Bankruptcies are very serious issues that can often be avoided by seeking help from a professional debt counseling service that will intervene with creditors.

Barbour is ideologically opposed to tax increases, and he apparently wants to finish his term saying he avoided one, even in the face of this tremendous disaster.

You would love to have avoided the injuries, but there's no question we've seen progress, leaps and bounds, from some guys taking advantage of the situation.

This is a sad and tragic situation for this child and his family and I offer sympathy to them. This unfortunate situation could have been avoided with proper crime prevention measures in the proper storage of the firearm.

The web can help to build brand equity. Channel conflict is avoided when the company can see that e-commerce is generating more online sales, helping to promote the catalog and driving sales to stores.

This calls it as it is. We accept these truths even when they are painful ones. After 1945 many people and institutions avoided questions about their role during NS times.

They sent everybody at Broderick tonight, and he showed how unselfish he is and still managed to score. We avoided foul trouble for the most part, and that was one of the keys for us.

They're still singing about going out and getting drunk and having fun. We very consciously avoided that sort of subject matter.

There's concern about demand for new five-year notes as signs of economic recovery raised speculation an end of easy monetary policy will come sooner than later next year. Japan avoided political chaos with Koizumi's strong victory, which provides a fair wind to stocks and a recovery scenario.

There's a misconception about which foods are bad for you, but really it depends on what your objective is. I avoided nuts because they're high in fat, but that's not an issue for me. So now I have permission to eat them.

There was a lot of stuff going on. We avoided most of it, and then unfortunately there toward the end I couldn't avoid Mike Bliss . We had to fix the right front fender. We had a great car. We really did. We never really got to show it. We got it really good the second half of the race, and the whole time we were playing catch-up.

It was bang-bang on both of them. (On the first one) we brought Jason from first, that's a long trot but we were confident he would get there. He made the slide and avoided the tag. That's the kind of game this was, on both sides.

It's about time we had someone less partisan, someone who will care more about their constituents. . . . A large cost could have been avoided if he had done this before the primary. He wasted taxpayers' money.

It is worth it even if only the financial balance sheet for society is considered: a few years of investment versus a subsequent lifetime of productive activity. Perhaps a cycle prevented with children's lives changed. Health problems averted. Addiction and crime avoided as ways to cope with hopelessness.

For every megawatt of Entergy New Orleans transmission, we avoided about half our purchased power costs.

It's a nightmare. We avoided it. We found this empty lot, so we just decided to park over here off to the side, not too far from the main gate. And so far what we've seen we could see just as good as if we were in there.

That means that six out of 10 head injuries could be avoided if everyone wore a helmet. If you're smart, wear a helmet - if you want to stay smart.

Everyone in New Jersey has either narrowly avoided an accident or been bothered because of potholes.

(The) vast majority of the machines infected...are home computers. Nothing will happen on them until people get home from work and boot up their machines. We'd like to think that they whole problem was avoided and everybody cleaned up their machines in time. But unfortunately, that's probably not true.

The return of our NABET-represented employees and the closing of what has been a difficult period for all concerned - one that I wish could have been avoided - is a very welcome development.

These tragic deaths could have been avoided if authorities had been enforcing the law.

I have never played ballroom dancing before. As a matter of fact, I have strictly avoided it. I think it is a beautiful dance but I don't think it accommodates itself to singles. So many people get competitive over it. I haven't had it, but we're going to have it.

In the first half we conceded a goal that we shouldn't have done. Maybe the second we should have avoided as well.

In our opinion, the market should be thankful that we avoided a possible surge in volatility which could have happened if President Bush picked a more unknown candidate.

In view of the rapidly rising rates of obesity and diabetes in America, this good news could not have come at a better time, ... So many of our health problems can be avoided through diet, exercise and making sure we take care of ourselves. By promoting healthy lifestyles, we can improve the quality of life for all Americans, and reduce health care costs dramatically.

Clogs can be avoided if proper steps are taken.

He still wants to be the best, ... He keeps himself in great shape, has avoided major injuries and is using the same swing he always has.

He stuck his head in the sand and deliberately avoided knowing what would have been obvious. We don't need to prove why.

Georgia was blessed with strong leaders who avoided the kind of divisive distractions that held back most other cities and states in the South.

This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

I avoided the phone this morning because this (the DGA nomination) was the one I knew I wouldn't get. When my friend called to tell me, I made him repeat the sentence three times.

I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.

I don't like to put it on an appropriations bill, but we waited long enough, ... fall-back position which I have avoided up 'til now.

I don't like the pot calling the kettles black. It's something that has to stop if we're going to get along. Tonight, sores have been reopened with many statements made by new and old board members. Those things could have been avoided here tonight, and should have.

I do not believe that Enron's fall would have been avoided had the board asked more questions.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

The key to this investigation is finding out which no-tell motel that blanket came from. There's trace evidence that he could not possibly have avoided leaving on there.

You will see through the trial that the FBI actively avoided running down any John Doe #2 lead in the case if it contradicted their theory that it was just Mr. McVeigh and Mr. Nichols involved.

The LSE has again avoided focusing on matters within its control, pinning its hopes on cyclical equity and IPO market movements and an optimistic belief in global exchange consolidation.

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ...

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

What is deferred is not avoided.

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

Loveless moments are to be avoided.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

A battle avoided cannot be lost.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.