Word: averting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the electricians' union whose work is vital to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) red line extension project, voted Saturday to avert a strike, settling with the National Electrical Contractor's Association (NECA...
...diplomats, who had hoped Begin "would count to ten" before responding and thus avert a total breakdown of the negotiations, were disappointed by the Israeli Prime Minister's brusque response. Begin promptly drafted a "page by page refutation" of Sadat's letter, asserting that Egypt was the real obstacle to peace because of its constant interruptions of negotiations. Begin also charged that Egypt was deviating from the Camp David accords by bringing up the issue of Jerusalem, "which was never mentioned in any stages of the peace treaty...
...production and its new status as an oil exporter (258,000 bbl. sent to the U.S. since March). But most of the country's wealth remains concentrated in a few hands, despite a growing middle class. State Department experts believe that the country's potential prosperity could avert a total revolutionary upheaval, but only if political and social reforms are adopted. Says one frustrated U.S. official: "What they don't understand is that simply killing Communists doesn't solve the problem...
Last week a team of doctors and scientists at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University announced the successful use in patients of a space-age machine that may eventually avert many such deaths. Their device: a mini-defibrillator, only about as big as a cigarette pack, that can be implanted in the patient's body, where it continually monitors the heart and, if attacks occur, automatically orders up charges of electricity to jolt the heart back into a normal rhythm...
Because energy is the lifeblood of a modern industrial society, the Soviets will undoubtedly make an all-out effort to tap their hard-to-get reserves. It remains to be seen, though, whether the country can accomplish the job in time to avert serious shortages. Concludes Jack Ray, a Tenneco petroleum specialist who is often in the Soviet Union: "With brute strength and will power they'll muddle through, just as they always...