21.   The agency has cleverly tried to avoid partisan politics.

22.   The board says its historic independence must be preserved to avoid City Hall politics.

23.   The coverage of the inauguration began with a conscious, never credible effort to avoid politics.

24.   The key for black politicians, Wilder said, is to avoid racial politics at all costs.

25.   The ship visited only places to which it had been invited, and project officials said they tried to avoid politics.

26.   This tense final day comes after the pope avoided politics in a visit Saturday to Nazareth, another site of religious confrontation.

27.   When former special prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski conducted their investigations of then-President Nixon, they avoided partisan politics.

28.   Which is not to say he has avoided politics.

29.   Years back, he had avoided politics and sneered at Washington power-tripping as the teen-age son of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes in the Roosevelt administration.

30.   A pragmatic manager without charisma, Chernomyrdin had, until now, avoided electoral politics.