White House officials have denied any effort to avoid compliance with subpoenas.

"It's not our intent to avoid compliance with any of our regulatory agreements," she said.

"I hope that the towns will abandon their past practices to avoid compliance and get on with the necessary steps."

But Texas is trying to avoid compliance with the new accounting rule.

Among them were these: * Can any Administration avoid compliance with the law by simply launching a covert operation?

And to answer your last question, no, this is not a ploy on the part of the crew to avoid compliance with the evacuation order.

"And it appears to be wasting funds in a quixotic attempt to avoid compliance."

At one point, it offered to forfeit $30 million in Federal funds to avoid compliance with the consent decree.

Being thus formally appealed to, the two magistrates could not avoid compliance with the request.

Many lobbyists exploited loopholes in the act to avoid full compliance.