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...been freed from their confining orbits, Gorbachev warned that "any attempt to extract selfish benefits from these events ((is)) fraught with chaos." Kohl's next and far more difficult task is to convince Gorbachev -- and many who silently think like him -- that chaos is just what his plan will avert...
Frantic attempts by Communist leaders to avert the strike failed, as workers joined the pro-democracy movement started by students, artists and intellectuals...
During the unrestful weekend after the stock market plunged 190.5 points on Friday the 13th, top U.S. financial officials knew it was up to them to help avert a panic the following Monday. At a pivotal two-hour meeting, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, a former Wall Streeter, huddled with Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and Richard Breeden, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sifting through the latest market data, the trio concluded that the Dow Jones industrial average would fall more than 50 points when the New York Stock Exchange opened Monday, but then would probably...
...House was expected to approve the measure today after yesterday's consideration of the California request by the Appropriations Committee. Swift Senate action was also anticipated, because the money was attached to a bill that needs enactment before Thursday to avert a government shutdown...
...this increased attention to the environment as a foreign policy and national security issue, however welcome, is only a gesture in the direction of what will be necessary to avert insoluble problems in the future. "The ! most formidable obstacles to action," says Benedick, are "the entrenched economic and political interests" of the world's most advanced nations. It is in those countries, warns Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N., that "the pain of adjustment will be greatest...