When there is something pleasant that one doesn't want to indulge in, like junk food or alcohol, the key to avoiding temptation is to interrupt the habitual response with a quick, easy alternative action, says Dr. Gollwitzer.
Firms think twice about firing, and governments are keener to provide in-work subsidies if it means avoiding payouts to the newly jobless.
Abbott also said that he expects his club to challenge for promotion next season season despite only avoiding relegation to League Two by a point.
Cathy Cheal, senior academic technology officer at San Jose State University in California, which recently accepted several MOOCs for credit, said the key to avoiding cheating online is to structure courses so students are constantly engaged and have to answer questions every few minutes.
We should work to tap into the new technologies available to us that can help broaden and enrich public education, while avoiding efforts to turn over education to for-profit online schools which use the appeal of technology to sell subpar products.
Instead of fighting back, modern corporate universities, where truth, fairness, and liberty have taken a backseat to avoiding legal liability, rush to jump on the bandwagon.
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The EU and the UK seem to be avoiding a systemic solution to the present financial crisis in favor of a tactical cure.
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But we can't have large businesses and individuals who can afford coverage game the system by avoiding responsibility to themselves or their employees.
Gun-Free South Africa argues that, though guns are an effective means of killing criminals, they are a poor way of avoiding harm to oneself.
With seven members and a Canadian address, Ontario's The Rest may have trouble avoiding comparisons to The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene.
There are about 70, 000 new cases of skin cancer diagnosed in the UK each year, many of which could be prevented by avoiding overexposure to UV light.
Now, Seton Hall may hope that by standardizing on Windows 8, it will be able to save money by avoiding the need to invest in new management software.
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They remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier League, seven points adrift of safety - but in football terms they are capable of avoiding relegation to the Championship.
Another important factor is avoiding injuries to key players, which has not been the case in India where strike bowler Shane Bond and all-rounder Scott Styris have been struggling with niggles.
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Parents should be firm with their kids, say advisers, by making them pay for rent and other expenses if possible, setting a limit for how long they are allowed to stay, and avoiding the temptation to offer extra financial help, like loans.
But when it comes to avoiding loops of doom, deciding whether to delegate or to sweat the details, whether to synergize or specialize, whether to manage by walking around and solving problems or manage by ignoring problems and pursuing opportunities, whether to run tight ships or to inculcate chaotic innovation among armies of shorts-wearing, Ping-Pong playing, cubicle-less knowledge workers, humanity is still figuring this out at least, I am.
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But if Texas wins the series, better for them to finish it off in six, thus avoiding the need to use ace Cliff Lee in a deciding game.
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He may be waving a big stick at Albany, but he is speaking softly and, for now, seems to be avoiding Mr Spitzer's propensity to arrogance.
The key to avoiding any privacy or big brother issues is informed consent before purchase and the ability to revoke consent after purchase.
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Well you won't find us standing in line to pick up such a luxury item, but we do have to give Lenovo credit for avoiding the obvious temptation to go with a traditional 15th anniversary theme, and unleashing a crystal-studded monstrosity that would make IBM execs cringe with horror and regret every time they saw one being flaunted by a colleague.
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The promotion focus on potential gain leads to speed, creativity, innovation, and embracing risk, while the prevention focus on avoiding loss leads to accuracy, careful deliberation, thoroughness, and a strong preference for the devil-you-know.
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"The American banks wanted to get a piece of Chinese banks because they knew the Chinese were quite capable of avoiding Wall Street to raise capital, " said Charles Geisst, a finance professor at Manhattan College and the author of several books on Wall Street history.
It makes it easier to manage capacity in theatres: a popular film can simply be shown on more screens, avoiding the rush to obtain extra film prints of a surprise hit.
In some ways, Soros went on to tell Bloomberg TV, even avoiding a blowup akin to the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 may not be enough to save the 17-nation currency with all its current members.
Others preferred the old arrangement, devised for the cold war, under which America promised to defend Japan (avoiding the need for Japan to play a bigger military role of its own) in return for the right to station American troops there to ward off Soviet aggression.
Consequently, the GOP leadership is doing everything possible to prevent Congressman Steve King from getting his Defund-ObamaCare rider attached to the latest Continuing Resolution in the hopes of avoiding what it believes to be an unwinnable high-stakes confrontation with the president.
Still, the best defense is a good offense when it comes to avoiding debt problems.
But he said that planning meals around the family's week was key to avoiding waste.
The lesson from this analysis is that constant vigilance is the only answer to avoiding ugly surprises.
But, ultimately, we are our own best "fire marshals" when it comes to avoiding, and escaping, dangerous situations.
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