Word: avert
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Specifically, black politics must be concerned with restructuring affirmative action with regards to black people; pushing a pan-African agenda that works to prevent the spread of AIDS and avert the destabilization of the African continent; and creating independent financial institutions that reinvest and redistribute wealth throughout the Diaspora. Moreover, black elites must devote themselves to the education of black youth in order to provide an alternative voice to the onslaught of negativity unleashed by a profit-driven media...
...that bird flu is being spread from humans to humans, which would make this virus infinitely more ominous. Should that occur, experts warn of a global pandemic far worse than SARS, which killed 800 people worldwide. Mutating viruses are frighteningly unpredictable, but mass cullings of poultry should help to avert a pandemic...
CONTROLLING SARS: The disease has re-emerged in Asia, but a virologist may help avert disaster...
...years, if a woman missed a birth-control pill, tore a condom or engaged in unprotected sexual intercourse, she was powerless to prevent pregnancy. The 1999 introduction of the emergency contraceptive Plan B, known as the “morning-after pill,” allowed some women to avert unintended pregnancy. But barriers to obtaining the emergency contraceptive—available by prescription only—precluded it from becoming a viable back-up plan for most women...
...approval rating down to an anemic 25%, voters fear that his exit would leave them rudderless in the face of a stagnant economy and the North Korean nuclear-weapons crisis. Polls indicate voters would back their leader, who has more than four years left in his presidential term, to avert a descent into chaos...