Then a follow up question surfaced: if more women had been in positions of authority, might we have mitigated or even avoided the whole morass?
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Even if Larry Altman avoided residency, where papers are discussed even more, he would have had to learn how to read scientific papers as a pre-med and as a medical student.
They avoided even the advice of their own general, General Shinseki.
Nonetheless, Henry Hu, who teaches securities law at the University of Texas law school in Austin, says Spitzer should have avoided even the appearance of impropriety.
Starr did get some leniency, prosecutors were looking for 10 -12 years, even though he avoided authorities during the incident of his arrest by fleeing and hiding in a closet at his Manhattan apartment.
Even if that is avoided, the short-term prospects for the world economy are shakier than many realise.
Even if that is avoided, Greece's rescuers may have to shoulder more of the financing burden than we have estimated, should private investors reduce their exposure to Greece.
Even if crises are avoided, emerging markets are prone to sudden slowdowns as they become richer and the trick of shifting underemployed rural migrants to urban jobs becomes harder to repeat.
But he adds that the subject is often avoided, and even treated as taboo.
Even though her bank narrowly avoided liquidation, she deplored the decision to close the others.
Even if economic catastrophe is avoided, the financial crisis will impose great costs on consumers, workers and businesses.
Since then, she has largely avoided flying - even coming to the UK "by bus once" for a promotional trip.
He even tried to promote the avoided transaction as some kind of stock buyback, although there was no stock buyback.
Even though the committee carefully avoided recommending the sale of the banks, urging instead that the government let them issue new private equity to dilute its stake to around 33%, the import was clear.
Because of Ms Silva, the campaign for the first round was the first time in a Brazilian election campaign that environmental issues were aired - even if the other candidates avoided any detailed discussion of them.
Even if the easy mistakes are avoided, improving supervision and regulation is hard.
He even devised a diplomatic answer that avoided challenging the existence of God.
Though mp3 players and audio cassette guides before them had been used for years, the iPods allow visual content to be shown, offering a new way to deliver in-depth educational content in a museum that has avoided flatscreen panels and even limited the number of explanatory text panels.
Even as the Group of 7 nations avoided a WTO-style contest for IMF head, America may pursue its own line on the future of the Fund, not to mention other multilateral lending agencies.
Yet suffering avoided counts as a good, even when the recipient is a nonexistent one.
"Ford has so far avoided going into bankruptcy protection, or even needing state support, " he said.
Even if a new round of protectionism can be avoided, ambitions to liberalise trade further are disappointingly limited.
Even with teacher supervision, obscenities can't be avoided, and are sometimes hidden inside other words, advocates argue.
Indeed, it will be comparable with most renewables, even wind power, in the cost of carbon dioxide avoided.
He said it is commonly thought that if modern humans could emulate pre-industrial or even pre-agricultural lifestyles, that atherosclerosis would be avoided.
The Pentagon, which wanted to keep those wars limited and short, avoided planning for large-scale manufacturing, even after its necessity became obvious.
These slips even in front of a notionally allied audience need to be avoided.
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Motorola avoided smartphones, seeing them as a small business even if one with higher than traditional margins.
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