Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powers-the U.S., Western Europe, Japan and Canada-he spent months pondering policy options. He and his staff went through ten drafts of the speech. The result was a passionate, sometimes eloquent statement. At its heart was a five-point program of international cooperation that Kissinger hopes will help avert massive financial and political disruptions by eventually driving down the price of oil. The industrial nations, he argued, must band together in what amounts to a countercartel and jointly conserve, develop and share their own energy sources...
George Mavros, a conservative former associate of the late prime minister George Papandreou--whose re-election the '67 coup aimed to avert--heads the party of the Center Union-New Political Forces. The junta exiled him repeatedly on account of his antagonistic public statements, and he joined Caramanlis as vice-premier and minister of external affairs when the regime fell. He counts a youngish (late forties to early fifties) group of progressive middle-class Greeks among his followers--most of whom actively resisted the dictatorship and suffered persecution, exile, jail, and torture. These people comprise, specifically, the NPF sector...
...those involved in the project were unmoved by the jarring mathematics of starvation. Yet, as Pines concludes, aid alone will not avert future famines: "The crisis will get worse until we in the West demand that the underdeveloped countries decrease their population growth...
Sharp Defeat. Ford's extraverted socializing included some golfing with members of Congress. Yet this did not avert a sharp congressional defeat for him on the first issue on which he directly challenged the legislators. The Senate rejected, by a vote of 64 to 35, Ford's plan to save $700 million by postponing for three months a pay raise for federal employees...
...avert collapse, the builders and lenders almost unanimously called on the Federal Reserve Board to relax its tight-money policy, and many advocated a balanced federal budget to give the board more room to maneuver. But they also floated a variety of ideas for special help for home finance, several of which would scarcely help to hold down federal spending. Some of the proposals...