Word: averted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even his most loyal supporters. His first five months produced little but petty errors, squabbles and a deepening frustration that so vibrant a campaigner could be so dull an incumbent. Then came Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, and Stokes, 40, tearfully walked through Cleveland slums, trying to avert the violence that was to inflame 168 other American cities. He succeeded, and that April night seemed to bring the mayor to rousing life...
...President Joaquin Balaguer kept conspicuously aloof. He made no campaign speeches and withheld endorsements, ordered other government leaders to do likewise. By seeking to confine the campaign to local issues and personalities, Balaguer hoped to avoid making the election a national plebiscite on his two-year government and thus avert partisan fireworks. Yet, in the end, the election still came down to a vote for or against Balaguer. A heavy turnout of 1,000,000 voters gave his Reformista party and other pro-Balaguer independents an estimated 90% of both the 77 mayoralties and 488 city council posts that were...
When it was established after the Dow demonstration, the Council was charged primarily with formulating a recruitment policy so that the University could avert the kind of calamitous situation that evolved from the previous policy. SFAC held a number of meetings, discussed a number of issues, encountered President Pusey, and finally, just before it became a dead issue, started to discuss recruitment...
...avert those twin perils, said the globally respected central banker, the U.S. must cut its budget deficit in the fiscal year starting July 1 from a prospective $20 billion to less than $8 billion. Achieving such a reduction would require not only prompt enactment of the Administration-backed 10% income-tax surcharge but budget cuts at least as large as anything Congress has proposed. Moreover, said Martin, he has already told President Johnson that unless the U.S. slashes its balance of payments deficit, that problem will inexorably lead to a world devaluation of currencies. "This would...
...club to purge many government functionaries and encouraged criticism of Gomulka in the press. They are finding, however, that the wily Gomulka, 63, who spent five years in prison for his anti-Stalinist stand before becoming party boss in 1956, is no pushover. Last week Gomulka managed to avert a showdown with his enemies while placing two of his own men in top positions...