Still, Dell hopes to avoid the mistakes that plagued the introduction of its very popular XPS M1330 laptop during the summer.

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Those working to avoid popular votes on the treaty justify their actions on the ground that Eurosceptics are acting in still worse faith.

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We must avoid the tendency that has become popular in some political circles to blame teachers and unions for the failings of our schools.

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Not all of the efforts we undertook to avoid a deeper recession were popular.

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The popular thinking is one of safety and conservation in order to avoid the awful feeling of having your bowels displaced.

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For instance, the option to submit offering documents confidentially with the SEC has proved popular, with companies saying it has allowed them to avoid publicizing information they wouldn't want their competitors to see.

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It uses a central server to link computers together to avoid the complexity of other peer-to-peer programs such as Gnutella, a file-sharing program popular among the high-tech community.

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