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I eschew the term homonym because it suffers from an inherent ambiguity: a homograph is, to lexicographers, at least, a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different etymology ( bear 1 animal/ bear 2 carry; bore 1 carried/ bore 2 drill/ bore 3 tire/ bore 4 tide wave); a homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another but is spelled differently ( bear/bare; bier/beer; bore/boar ).
Oil money and federal largess--funds available either in full or at the most favorable matching rates for roads, military bases, parks, refuges, the Coast Guard, native affairs, and the full gamut of social-welfare benefits--allows the state to eschew both an income tax and a sales tax.
In playgrounds across America, young basketball players eschew team play in favor of taking on defenders one-on-one, dunking, and "taking over the game" in crunch time, because they want to "be like Mike," as the advertisements say.
And if Clinton now knows to eschew "big government," members of the Republican Congress elected in 1994 have also learned their lesson about attempting to make government truly smaller.
Again, scrupulous reporters eschew this question, focusing instead on public perception.