Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither of these moves demonstrate real changes in the structure of the South African regime, however. There are two kinds of pressure on Vorster to achieve a detente in Southern Africa. He must avert the economic boycott threatened last year by the U.N. Security Council because of South Africa's failure to grant full independence to Namibia, or Southwest Africa, and he must develop a belt of neutral countries which will protect South Africa from militant guerilla movements based in neighboring countries...
...York as a symbol, and obscures what it really is--eight million people. Congress has been accepting Ford's picture of the crisis, and is only beginning to understand that it won't be "bailing the city out" and sanctioning fiscal irresponsibility if it gives New York time to avert default. But while Congress considers action, New York approaches disaster...
...regular teachers and 7,500 substitutes. That action meant that many teachers who still held jobs would have larger classes and more work to do. In Brooklyn's P.S. 79, for example, teachers last week were preparing for classes of at least 40 students each. To avert further layoffs, the board demanded that teachers give up some of their preparation periods, or free time, during the school day. Considering the financial crisis, that did not seem an unreasonable sacrifice for New York City's teachers, who have among the best fringe benefits in the nation. Their teaching...
...soul of "our brother Samuel." Father Bennett said, however, that he would not reveal the names of the two Catholic thugs who he suspects led the mob in Llewellyn's slaughter. "They'll be punished by their own people," he said, "and when that happens, may God avert his eyes...
...M.I.T.'s Press puts it: "How does one sell preventive medicine for a future affliction to Government agencies beleaguered with current illness?" Ironically, the one event that would release money for the study of earthquake prediction and control is the very disaster that scientists are trying to avert: a major quake striking a highly populated area without any warning. Tens of thousands of people living in the flood plain of the Van Norman Dam had a close call four years ago in the San Fernando Valley quake; had the tremor lasted a few more seconds, the dam might have...