Word: averting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Milosevic is likely to wait until the last possible moment and then make enough concessions to avert an air strike," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Belgrade has already declared an end to its offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo, and will likely make further commitments to avoid attack. U.N. and NATO sources insist that Milosevic has not yet complied with international demands, but further concessions could leave NATO in a difficult position. Says Dowell, "Skeptics believe that if NATO had really been planning to intervene in Kosovo, it should have done so a long time...
...effective action to halt the Serbians' grave violations of human rights or to help the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees whose only shelter has been the open sky. We urge the Harvard community to take all possible effective action, as soon as possible, to help to avert disaster and to protect the Kosovo refugees, who are now exposed not only to the harshness of the Balkan winter, but also to Serbian attacks...
...Life. If my Hebrew school teacher was correct, that would mean that I'll die before the next Day of Repentance rolls around. With all due respect, Lord, you would be making a big mistake. In the prayer book, it is written that "prayer, repentance and righteousness will avert the severe decree." Well, I am righteous. One out of three...
...there any agreement at all on how to help avert crises? Sort of. Both advise boy-specific nurturing techniques, like engaging in action-oriented activity that will lead to conversation instead of asking direct "How do you feel?" questions. But Pollack says mothers (and fathers) must encourage a range of emotions and generally "stay connected" to their sons. The results of a recent study of 150 Northeastern boys (that provided some of the material for his book) led him to conclude that boys will eagerly communicate in a supportive environment. Gurian's all for connection, but primarily in the form...
Eventually they abandoned the campaign, but I suspect that they continued to avert their eyes when they passed the American Hereford Association building. Nobody thought the campaign had done any lasting damage; it's not easy, after all, to hurt the feelings of a cow. Then last week I read in the Wall Street Journal that the boneless sirloin known for decades as the Kansas City strip, a cut of meat invented in the Heart of America, is now on most steak-house menus as the New York strip--although in Kansas City outraged customers forced Ruth's Chris Steak...