Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slender skyscraper in Manhattan, a message sped halfway around the world to the desk of Chou Enlai. Premier and Foreign Minister of Communist China: the Security Council of the U.N. respectfully invites Red China to participate in a debate of ways and means to stop the shooting and avert a full-scale war over the question of Formosa. R.S.V.P...
...Black's plan is to secure IFC's money with debentures, a cross between stocks and bonds which pay a fixed interest, fluctuate in value, represent ownership in the company but carry no voting rights. With this device, rarely used in international finance, IFC can avert the stigma of creeping socialism (it will have no voice in management) while realizing capital gains. Black expects most debentures to be convertible into common stock, so that IFC will find a ready market when it is ready to take its profits out of a smoothly running new business...
...avert a loss of Cyprus' good-will, the British should allow a vote of self-determination on the island. The Greeks and the Cypriots have already expressed their willingness to negotiate with the British for the continuation of the military bases. And the U.N. voted in September to undertake control of any election, should the British allow it. Britain must realize it is no longer the Imperial power of old, and that relaxation of its grip on Cyprus will best serve its national interests and the free world's defense of Europe...
...sheer force of character, Washington established that he, not Congress, would name his Cabinet, and that he, with the Senate consenting only afterward, would make treaties and direct foreign policy. At book's end, the hero reluctantly decides to accept a second term to avert a widening split between Hamilton and Jefferson and thus save the new republic. And at that point, Historian Freeman's stiff-backed prose comes to a halt. Scribner is now looking for a suitable historian to write the concluding Volume VII, bringing George Washington through his last six years...
...photographed in his pajamas when he learned that the old man had put him in an even tighter spot by committing suicide. The new chief of state took over his job without any ceremony. While heavily armed troops held Rio like a city at war, he moved fast to avert any coups and to restore order...