Word: averting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn of the century, labors under what is said to be the second worst case of poverty in the world, squeezing out the food from a land increasingly barren. Only the most cool-headed of agriculture and population policies, along with massive doses of foreign aid, can avert the starvation of millions...
Saying that "any president who failed to avert nuclear war, to put it mildly, would have failed at foreign policy," Lewis added that Reagan "is headed in the right direction in dealing with what should be our first priority--preventing nuclear...
Photographer Bureau, also on assignment for TIME, became one of the first journalists to get out of Poland. To avert suspicion, he left all his camera equipment in Burnett's care and departed by train for West Berlin Monday night (see Press). With him went 30 precious rolls of his and Burnett's film. Burnett himself left by train two days later. Correspondent Wierzynski, who arrived in West Berlin by train at week's end, reports that "news gathering in Warsaw came down to finding Polish friends who might know something-an account from a person recently...
Partly to discomfit the victorious Republicans, the House Democratic leader ship forced a separate vote on foreign aid, which has been funded for the past three years by continuing legislation designed to avert a showdown on the issue. Reagan had to line up support from a majority of Republicans, who generally vote overwhelmingly against foreign aid, to get the bill passed...
Harvard Square merchants last night appealed to the University to revamp its plans for a $25 million Mt. Auburn St. development in order to avert a drastic shortage of parking spaces caused by construction scheduled to begin this winter...