Word: averting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price, in terms of unemployment and creativity, may have been too high. During his first year in office, Mitterrand tried the "post-1930s" approach. Massive government spending successfully held unemployment in check, but produced soaring inflation and a feeble franc. Mitterrand has since adopted an austerity program to avert catastrophe. The five other nations present at the conference--West Germany, Italy, Canada, Britain and Japan--fall between these extremes, yet none but Japan has avoided economic dislocation. And 22 million people are unemployed in the summit countries...
...this, and a bit more, will of necessity be revealed in the following paragraphs. Filmgoers who demand total suspense should now avert their eyes and wait patiently in line Wednesday, May 25, when Return of the Jedi, the third of the Star Wars epics, opens in 950 theaters across the U.S. and Canada. Those who think they have already guessed the answers may read on, secure in the knowledge that the real surprises of the movie will not be unveiled in the pages that follow. So get ready for the final picture in George Lucas' marvelous rocket-propelled fairy tale...
...this as a danger to the region. Morton Kondracke, the executive editor of the New Republic, last week compared the situation in Central America with what happened in Indochina in 1975 after Congress denied funds to South Viet Nam. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal: "We liberals cannot avert our eyes from what ensued: 3 million murders in Cambodia, total deprivation of human rights in Viet Nam and a falling of dominoes .. . Central America is more ethnically homogeneous than Indochina, so the dominoes there may fall faster...
Kohl tries to avert...
...Manley's caustic assessment of the organization. He contends that IMF conditions for aid, which include an austerity program, impose unbearable hardships on the receiving country, cutting wages and increasing unemployment. At one critical point Manley had to import either food to feed the starving or raw materials to avert economic collapse. The IMF, he concludes, is totally unresponsive to the needs of the Third World...