Unless the Giuliani administration bears down harder on this crucial project, the city may not be able to avoid building a new $6 billion water filtration plant.

Hershey avoided building a faceless company town with row houses.

Mr. Cooper said their program would avoid building a new Government bureaucracy.

"With conservation, we were able to avoid building those big power plants, and it was ultimately cheaper," said Bob Dobkin, a spokesman for the company.

In recent months, the city's efforts to avoid building the filtration plant have become increasingly jeopardized by delays and unforeseen complications.

Through most of the 1990's, automakers avoided building new assembly plants, convinced that the good times would not last.

Today, most utilities are striving to find ways to pare their operating costs and to avoid building new power plants as long as possible.

That agreement allowed the city to avoid building a $6 billion water-filtration system.

Following at least 2 encounters with predators, pinyon jays learned to avoid building their nests in exposed areas of trees.

This avoids building the names of listener modules into the application.