81.   When the United States was the dominant economy in the world, it was easier for companies to avoid these stark choices and still earn hefty profits.

82.   While the company so far has avoided the expensive temptation to develop a nationwide distribution infrastructure, the Alaska expansion could make it more tempting.

83.   Without these provisions, critics say, foreign workers cannot demand higher wages, and companies can avoid environmental costs that US companies incur at home.

84.   Although the company largely has avoided finger-pointing, it says it never promised to have the new site operating fully by early July.

85.   But he said the company avoided marketing its products to children, even long before the ban.

86.   But the company cannot avoid blame for having refused to accept responsibility for its behavior after the war had ended, and for trying to cover up the incident.

87.   German companies have largely avoided payments to forced laborers.

88.   --Gives small businesses the option to buy health insurance under federal rather than state regulation -- exempting them from state mandates that larger, self-insured companies now avoid.

89.   It essentially permits U.S.-based companies to avoid paying taxes on much of their foreign income so long as they have paid taxes on it overseas.

90.   It permits U.S. companies to avoid certain income taxes by setting up export subsidiaries on offshore tax havens.