Word: averter
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...SEVEN-MAN Democratic presidential campaign rolled into town last week, debating the topic "How to Avert a Nuclear War" at the Kennedy School. After agreeing for more than a hour that everyone likes the idea of a nuclear freeze, all the candidates decided to go out for ice cream together...
...each case to "an authoritarian leader without a popular base of support." In an interview with TIME, Sullivan said that the U.S. should encourage Marcos "to make an amicable deal with the moderate opposition in order to restore democracy, neutralize the small but growing ranks of the radicals, and avert civil...
...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...
...politicians, though on an international as opposed to national stage. Yuri Andropov, had he wanted to shoot KAL 007 down, would nevertheless not have done so had he been in charge. His geo-political concerns--like the attempts to "neutralize" Western Europe, court the Third World and avert if possible the deployment of U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles on the Continent--are too great and present in his mind to have permitted such an act. Military leaders, on the other hand, like to use the hardware they have been given. And they tend to think more in terms...
...those words, Victor Giménez Landinez, Venezuela's Ambassador to the Organization of American States, summed up the plight of the 26 Latin American and Caribbean nations that met last week in Caracas, Venezuela. Just one year ago, Western bankers and public officials were scrambling frantically to avert a worldwide financial crisis as several Latin American countries tottered on the brink of default. The moneymen have since lent more than $45 billion to Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American nations to help them pay interest on about $275 billion in loans...