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The NYT front features a story stating that while American and British forces have targeted military, intelligence, and communications facilities, they have avoided hitting known Iraqi chemical and biological weapons sites in order to avoid unleashing plumes of poisons into the air that could kill Iraqi civilians.
By framing the issue as "sensitivity," the Post avoided taking responsibility for deeming Bauer's closed-door meetings an important issue.
In the remainder of this section, we discuss the major sources of each of these three categories of uncertainty related to the estimate of avoided health effects, avoided ecological effects, and monetary valuation of these benefits.
Thus, the net avoided cost measure implies the absurdity that a government must fund the entire delivery network if it wants to fund the cost of universal service.
I do not particularly like to engage what is not in a book, but, of course, it cannot be avoided in this sort of work, as its scheme is meant to make a statement about what is important about the black experience and what isn't.