Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tens of millions will starve." But it is bad enough. The present shortage began after lack of rain ruined many of India's crops, and could develop into a crisis if anything happens to the winter harvest. In that case, even foreign aid might not be able to avert widespread famine, since India's overburdened ports and railways would probably be unable to distribute food fast enough throughout the country. What would then be needed would be a massive grain airlift to drop food into the remote needy areas...
...Meanwhile the U.S. will avert a crisis in doctor supply only by continued foreign aid: 15,500 graduates of foreign schools (mainly in the Philippines, India and Pakistan) have acquired U.S. medical licenses in the last 15 years. Countless U.S. hospitals are utterly dependent on 11,000 interns and residents from foreign schools...
Wilson last week took personal charge of last-minute efforts to avert a crippling country-wide railroad strike, persuaded the railwaymen's union to retreat from demands for a much higher wage increase and settle for the government's ceiling of 3.5%. With that, the Prime Minister not only reinforced Britain's gradual progress in strengthening the pound but demonstrated again that he is willing to take politically unpleasant measures when necessary...
...most of the week the government had no time to worry about the doctors. It was trying to avert major violence in the "black triangle" mining district in eastern Belgium. Miners had gone on a rampage after the government gave notice that it was closing down the uneconomic Zwartberg mine, which employs 4,000. The riots lasted three days and a miner and a miner's son were killed in clashes with state police before Premier Harmel sent in 350 soldiers to restore order. The government finally brought calm by promising that the mine would not be closed until...
...with the problem of how to label and whether to restrict the use of this antibiotic (Parke, Davis' Chloromycetin). It is unquestionably the best drug against half a dozen uncommon diseases and a few medical conditions that should be treated in hospitals. But it is often prescribed to avert the aftereffects of a common cold, for which it is useless and also dangerous, because it may cause death from anemia...