Word: avert
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...three camps, Inslee says. The first group thinks any bailout is an outrage at a time when CEOs have been getting such huge bonuses. These people, says Inslee, "are so outraged, they don't get past that." The second group comprises people who recognize the need to intervene to avert further financial calamity "but are absolutely outraged that we'd do something that is so inequitable to Main Street." This group, he says, is considerably larger than the first and wants a more balanced bill. Finally, Inslee says, there is a third group that "is in favor of doing anything...
...Conservative leader David Cameron promises a new candor in relations with Washington. The Labour government, he says, has tended to flatter Britain's allies across the Atlantic rather to deliver helpful home truths. But as he considered the sorry sight of a Congress unable to agree on measures to avert a global financial meltdown, it's just as well that Cameron spared U.S. politicians his unvarnished opinions, which would have been anything but pretty...
...Likewise: Seven hundred billion to avert the collapse of the world economy and a new Great Depression? Sure. Seven hundred billion to avert a recession? People are reasonably going to doubt that. Economies have recessions; you don't necessarily go into hock and restructure the economy every time that happens...
...bruising power struggle between Mbeki and Zuma, that was finally resolved in Zuma's favor last December. Later in the day, Mbeki's office issued a statement saying that the President would "step down after all constitutional requirements have been met," an act of capitulation that could avert political crisis ahead of a general election that is set to take place next year...
...that would keep it in contention for English and European honors, and then disaster struck as a run of disastrous form saw the club miss out on Champion's League qualification. The resulting loss of projected revenues forced an emergency sell-off of star players, but that failed to avert a financial collapse, and the once mighty Leeds United now languishes in England's third-tier league. Just as wealth and success on the field go hand in hand in today's pro soccer, so can disaster on the field bring disaster at the bank...