Word: averting
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...such overhaul would bring far more layoffs than those on the table in the Air France talks. Facing the reality that the buyout may be the only hope to avert massive job losses, both Italian unions and government representatives said late Thursday that they would like to try again with Air France. But there was no immediate word from Paris...
...since the stock market crash of 1987, but he called the decision “appropriate.” Summers criticized current Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., for being too timid in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. While more caution could have helped avert the problem, Summers said, the same impulse can be destructive after the fact. Summers also attacked the White House, saying that the Bush administration has given “insufficient weight to the interests of the middle class.” He said that lapses in moral leadership, raw power, and economic...
That could have helped avert Janet Hard's nightmare. The 42-year-old nurse from Freeland, Mich., says Discover raised the rate on her card from 7.9% in 2000 to 24.4% in February 2007, a period when she was charging her family of four's dentist bills to the card since they have no dental insurance. "When I look at the money that we have paid to Discover during just the last two years, I feel sick. Of the $5,618 made in payments to Discover, $3478.39 went to interest," Hard testified at a Senate hearing in December. "My husband...
...going to be significantly higher," says John V. Mitchell, an OPEC expert and associate fellow at Chatham House in London. That realization deepened this week when OPEC's president, Algeria's Oil Minister Chakib Khelil, rebuffed President Bush's appeal for OPEC to boost production and so help avert a U.S. recession by easing oil prices on the world market. Instead Khelil said that production quotas for its 13 members - who supply about 40% of the world's oil - will "either decrease or be stable" when OPEC oil ministers next meet in Vienna on March 5. Adding to the jitters...
...Unsettling hints accrue - of incest, narcotics and faked illnesses - and Noriko finds herself increasingly unable to avert her eyes and continue believing in her fairy-tale in-laws. Their cloying, plastic adulation begins to suffocate. Occasional outings with her blunt-spoken high school friend Tomomi, who enjoys a Sex and the City lifestyle as a single woman working in central Tokyo, living alone and puffing cigs at noisy cafés, heighten Noriko's sense of entrapment. Her life is like a pachinko game: she's the silver ball, pinging between her once happy but now cultish family...