Word: averter
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After first wishing to avert his eyes from the population of the disabled, of which he was now a part, he gradually came to accept what was before him. He got rid of his security guards. "I started wheeling into other people's rooms and talking with them. We realized we were no different from one another. Some very nice friendships developed." From time to time, he goes back to Kessler to visit with the people he met there...
...heads were the first to roll. Now an officer appointed to comb the results of the investigation will determine if other people in the chain of command should also be held accountable." President Clinton called the report brutally honest: "Some steps have already been taken to avert the possibility that any of these errors can be made again, and I am convinced, absolutely convinced, that others will be taken." -->