Word: averter
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...course, no one has yet outdone George Steinbrenner in the art of scamming a city. Unsatisfied with his virtually free lease of historic Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, baseball's biggest brat is threatening to take his team to New Jersey. Governor Mario Cuomo has scrambled to avert this dubious catastrophe, proposing a 1 billion dollar bond issue which would, among other things, pay for a new stadium in the city...
...saying that we should never have gone to Somalia. The society was crumbling down on the heads of the people, and they were suffering. Military intervention was necessary to avert even more unbelievable horror. Intervention was right...
...required to pay at least 3.5% of payroll under the Clinton plan -- a payment some could finance only by shedding workers. President Clinton recently approved new transitional subsidies for businesses with fewer than 50 employees and average wages of less than $12,000. Those subsidies are expected to avert some but not all of the net job losses caused by health-care reform...
...safeguard food supplies have lost their jobs, and many have turned their guns on their employers. In February jobless guards besieged the Mogadishu office of CARE, demanding $500,000 in alleged "back pay." CARE refused to comply, then flew out most of its personnel and suspended food deliveries to avert holdups. Other relief agencies are pulling out altogether for safety reasons...
...University fails to act decisively, it will have opened the floodgates for a wave of swelling and ever-more violent attempts at "censorship" among student groups. Let the University fulfill its obligation to impartially administer its rules and protect the rights of all student groups, and so avert an inevitable and pernicious collapse from protected free speech into a campus-wide brawl in which vandalism and personal threats are the encouraged modes of expressing disagreement. Tung Le '96 Press Secretary, AALARM Harvard