But you should certainly avoid obvious personal intrusions, such as the two following: The confession "Sorry, I had no time to complete this essay, so I have made some basic points that I would have brought out and discussed."

A White House spokesman, confirming a report in Newsweek, said that since Mr. Bush's election all his children except Jeb, who is active in Florida politics, had declined Secret Service protection to avoid intrusions into their lives.

However, instead, it was decided to align the road along the York River through U.S. Navy land to avoid grade crossings, extensive tangents, modern intrusions and other "visual junk".

By adopting the proposed changes, he added, "we can avoid further intrusions into state regulation of lawyer discipline and conduct, which is what this is all about."

Mr. Sessions responded aggressively to the charges, saying that the investigation was based on solid allegations of wrongdoing and that the bureau had been careful to avoid intrusions on civil liberties.

Allowing telemarketers to avoid the pursuit of hostile residents and allowing citizens to avoid unwelcome intrusions into their homes would create a win-win situation and eliminate the black eye the direct-marketing industry now receives.

Although physicians are taught to divorce personal feelings from professional duty, and to avoid emotional intrusions, my experience has not supported this position.

Lord Wakeham, chairman of the newspaper watchdog Press Complaints Commission, took the occasion to say, "I will be reminding the industry of the terms of its code on these matters and of the continuing need to avoid such intrusions into his privacy."

By living quietly alone, I had hoped to avoid intrusions into my privacy.

Federal assistance for "internal improvements" evolved slowly and haphazardly-the product of contentious congressional factions and an executive branch generally concerned with avoiding unconstitutional federal intrusions into state affairs.