Word: avert
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...words in the headlines seemed vaguely familiar: OPEC meeting, oil output curtailed, prices rising. But if you are having haunting visions of long lines and $2.50-per-gal. gasoline, relax. When representatives of oil-producing countries meet in Vienna this week, they will try to avert the disaster that was arising because prices have been collapsing. Asia's stalled economies and a very warm winter have cut oil consumption way below what was projected for 1998. Result: a 50% plunge in oil prices from early 1997, to $13.31 per bbl. And with storage tanks brimming, the price looked poised...
Dingman also said that this year, students who arrive in Cambridge early "will move directly to their own houses" to avert the confusion which ensued last September, when many students had to switch houses mid-week from their temporary rooms...
Fortunately, an agreement brokered this weekend by Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, may avert armed conflict for the time being, pending U.S. agreement. The deal would allow U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraqi sites for an undetermined time--a key concession by Iraq. It appears to be a deal Clinton can and should accept...
...Peace Mission: Impossible The U.N. secretary general is heading to Baghdad to try and avert a conflagration. But even if Kofi Annan can reach an agreement with Saddam on weapons inspections, he'll still have to sell it to an equally tough-minded customer ? the United States...
Boston University Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff warned against optimism yesterday in a Littauer classroom lecture, saying that this year's budget surplus may not avert a possible crisis in the Social Security system...