Word: avert
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...able to fix the problem, and managed to avert a price collapse in the division...
...Savings accounts throw off barely enough interest to feed a parking meter. Companies are cutting pensions, and politicians are making dire noises about Social Security. It's a scary message people are getting: We are heading toward a future in which we will need more money than ever to avert disaster, and there are fewer opportunities to get it. So people see their homes as their last, best hope for prosperity--as not just houses but also lifeboats...
These moderates worked together to avert a doomsday scenario and save the filibuster because they recognized that the filibuster is needed to preserve the deliberative nature of the Senate; the filibuster rewards working across party lines, encourages politicians to reach out and try to convince the other side, and prevents a slim majority from running roughshod over the minority party...
...winning a battle here and there? "The whole idea of the Senate is that it's different from the House. The passions of the moment can cool here," says North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad, one of the Senators who was trying to come up with a deal to avert the vote on the nuclear option. If Republicans can manage to end the filibuster of judicial nominees, Democrats warn, it is only a matter of time before they end the filibuster on other issues as well...
...that they've drawn national attention, would the students support a Capital Hill deal to avert the expected vote? No. "Any sort of compromise that undermines the filibuster isn't really a compromise," says Jason Vagliano, a graduating Princeton senior and a registered Independent. "It's abolishing a 200-year-old protection of the minority voice in Congress...