Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of the Mexican-American relationship, and America's historic dominance, creates an obligation for the United States to help avert the crisis of which Lopez Portillo spoke. Lopez Portillo asked for additional financial support, investment subject to Mexico's laws and special trade concessions; but behind all this was a request for a more sensitive and responsible approach to the relationship. The United States should not dismiss Mexico's problems as a matter of domestic concern. There is an interdependence, even if it is more like a dependent interdependence...
What can be done to avert disaster? Last week Governors of eleven Western states and representatives of seven others met in Denver with Interior Secretary Cecil D. Andrus to consider specific steps. They blasted President Carter's decision to eliminate funding, at least temporarily, of 19 long-range federal water projects. Though none of these projects could have any impact on the current drought, the Governors said that they were "angry" and "stunned" at the poor timing of Carter's announcement. The Secretary promised to ask President Carter to appoint a national coordinator for drought relief...
...almost magical way, the existence of the charmed quark prohibits these unwanted and unseen decays, and brings the theory into agreement with experiment. Thus did my recent [1970] collaborators, John Iliopoulos, Luciano Maiani and I justify another definition of charm as a magical device to avert evil...
...team needs to avoid another tenth-place finish to avert a slip back into Division II, where they were mired until this year...
...things that motivated us [to choose Cox] was the suggestion by the Maine attorney general that Congress legislate the Indian claims out of existence or alter the rules under which the case would be tried, so we felt Professor Cox would be the best person to avert that kind of attack on the claim," Tureen said...