Word: averting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first mistake on the planners' part was not to make our nation's No. 1 the University's also. The rationale for giving Prince Charles the limelight might well have been the same as the no-degree ruling: the attempt to avert protest from general dislike of Reagan. But the University must take the Harvard Community for avid readers of People, if it thinks it can wow the crowds into forgetting the symbolism of a historic moment...
Although both sides hope to avert a long strike, the walkout is still sure to hurt. Wall Street analysts estimate that the firm could lose more than $60 million in after-tax profits for every week workers are out. The company hardly plays down the threat. Says Thomas Miner, Chrysler's vice president for industrial relations: "This whole company is paralyzed, and we'll start to bleed to death." U.S. negotiations recessed for the weekend, although talks continued in Canada. The Chrysler strike comes just as the U.S. auto industry is completing a banner year, projecting sales of 15.5 million...
...about to take place in South Africa, and when it does, it will destroy everything in its wake. So whether there is an explosion or whether there are sanctions, we are involved. As a matter of both principle and self-interest, we want to do everything possible to avert that explosion. Final arrangements can only be determined by the South Africans themselves. But we might give a hint: It's always dangerous giving too little too late. I told Mr. Botha in my (Botswana) border meeting with him in 1982, "You and the moderate whites in commerce, the moderate blacks...
...what about TV-38, the local station that carries Red Sox games. They were faced with the prospect of presenting a half a summer of The Movie Loft, featuring every lousy Bob Hope movie ever made. Thank God that the players and owners had the good sense to avert such a situation...
...really think that's [Harvard's] of trying to avert a union," said a four-year Harvard secretary who asked not to be identified...