Word: averting
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...larger regional war that engulfs the Horn of Africa. Last week, Ban Ki-Moon expressed serious concern about the military buildup along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, while State Department spokesman Sean McCormack urged Eritrea and Ethiopia to pull back troops from key border areas and use "maximum restraint" to avert...
...have long watched these two enigmatic Red Sox stars with the rapt attention one might pay to a car accident—as much as you want to avert your eyes from the fiery wreckage of yet another Ramirez base-running blunder or J-pap victory dance, you are physically unable to. But over the course of the Red Sox’s championship run, it dawned on us that while the media might lampoon—sometimes affectionately, sometimes not—Manny’s space-cadet qualities or Papelbon’s meat-headed antics and deranged...
...leverage, to the financial system has been demonstrated before - most vividly by the 1998 implosion of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a giant American hedge fund that lost $4.4 billion in six weeks and had to be bailed out with the help of the U.S. Federal Reserve to avert a market panic...
...transforming individuals as they learn, transforming the world as our inquiries alter our understanding of it, transforming societies as we see our knowledge translated into policies—policies like those being developed at Harvard to prevent unfair lending practices, or to increase affordable housing or avert nuclear proliferation—or translated into therapies, like those our researchers have designed to treat macular degeneration or to combat anthrax. The expansion of knowledge means change. But change is often uncomfortable, for it always encompasses loss as well as gain, disorientation as well as discovery. It has, as Machiavelli once wrote...
...tenets of liberty/the importance of free speech/ the laws of gravity…” Unspoken: Disagree with me, a-meego, and you’ll receive the roundhouse kick of popular opinion to the gut. I doggy dare you. Effectiveness Factor: 8 Chuck Norris Factor: Avert your eyes in the presence of glory 3) The Facebook Sucker Punch “Is that really what you think? That’s odd, considering (insert allusion to enemy’s dirty Facebook pics/ suggestive wall posts/ group memberships). Oh, I’m sorry (directed towards...