Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Piazza will be hoping to avert the trouble he had last weekend, when he virtually blacked out during the last two miles of a race with Lehigh and finished seventh. The 95-degree heat was apparently a factor in his misfortune...
...rapidly eroding the balance of payments gains brought about by two years of severe economic restraint. It has again called into question Britain's capacity to compete in an enlarged Common Market and poses a renewed-though not immediate-threat of another devaluation of the pound. To avert that blow, many economic analysts contend, Britain's new conservative government will have to adopt strong anti-inflation measures soon...
Lenin's policy change, however, came too late to avert the Kronstadt uprising. The sailors, mostly of peasant origin, had visited their homes after the end of the civil war and saw for the first time how difficult life was for their families in the countryside. They, too, blamed the party for most of the nation's ills; after all, had the government not carried out the forcible seizure of peasant grain, and in many instances denied the farmers even a subsistence of their own produce...
Died. Panayotis Pipinelis, 71, Foreign Minister of Greece, one of the few professional politicians to serve the ruling military junta; of a heart attack; in Athens. A longtime supporter of King Constantine, Pipinelis nevertheless stayed on to assist the inexperienced colonels in their efforts to avert war with Turkey over Cyprus in 1967. Fellow royalists regarded him as a traitor, but he persisted in his attempts to moderate the oppressive regime...
...Ireland together, it seemed, was the British army. Eleven thousand tommies under General Sir Ian Freeland patrolled Belfast and Londonderry and enforced a strict nighttime curfew. After the riots, General Freeland ordered his men to shoot to kill civilians carrying weapons. For a few days, such strict measures helped avert fresh outbursts in Belfast, even though 12,000 Protestants marched there in parades commemorating the 1916 Battle of the Somme in which 5,000 Ulstermen died. At week's end, however, pitched battles erupted between Catholics and troops who had discovered a cache of hidden weapons off the Falls...