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...dragon's nose had been cut off by a bulldozer; in revenge, the dragon had put a curse on the whole Man clan, which since the 1200s has made up all of the 3,700 population of Lok Ma Chau and the neighboring village of San Tin. To avert catastrophe, the expert declared, construction of the parking lot must cease immediately...
...plan is complete down to some intricate details designed to avert cheating and frustrate would-be black marketeers. The ration coupons will be about a third the size of a dollar bill and, like currency, they will be printed by a difficult-to-counterfeit intaglio process. When a driver bought gas and handed over his coupons at the pump, he would have to sign his name and write his license-plate number on each one, so that they could not readily be reused. The coupons would be good for only 60 days, so that speculators would be discouraged from hoarding...
...surrogate father. Indeed, it seems reasonable to expect that the movie will end with a shot of the sailor and the kid walking away from the camera, arms around each other, talking bravely about the future. Mark Rydell is not a director (The Fox, The Cowboys) to avert clichés or confound expectations. The only curiosity is what takes him so long to get around to such a finale...
Northeastern University plans to avert energy problems by shutting down administrative and research operations December 22-31. There have been no changes in the students' December 17-January 1 vacation...
...fateful inevitability. Yet, despite spreading signs of scarcity, most government leaders in the U.S., Europe and Japan paid little heed to calls from oilmen for urgent measures to expand energy resources and curb waste. Instead, they chose to believe that there was time to formulate some painless strategy to avert a genuine global emergency...