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...explained that the psychiatry and psychology divisions will endeavor to determine the relation between attempts and completions, how to find potential suicides, and what modes of intervention might be attempted to avert suicides...
...depth and consistency of this year's Crimson golf team promises that it will avert fiasco--whether it's raining...
...avert a major catastrophe, a task force headed by Alameda County Assistant Director of Civil Defense William Hildebrand is trying to work out a practical plan, and hopes to finance it by obtaining funds under the Federal Disaster Act. Besides jurisdictional disputes (30-odd separate local and state authorities are involved), there is one major hitch: the money is available only when a disaster is "imminent," and federal officials say that danger of a conflagration in August or September does not meet that requirement. But if the necessary preventive measures will take up to six months to complete, how much...
Doctors attributed the cause of death to a coronary thrombosis in epee (Harvard lost the weapon 8-1) and an unaccountable blockage of the sabre-torial artery (Yale sabremen triumphed, 7-2). Even a recovery from a season-long paralysis in foil was an insufficient antidote to avert the Crimson demise...
Financial problems plaguing two Harvard Square restaurants have forced one to close temporarily and another to institute some last-ditch changes to avert a shutdown...