Word: averting
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...MIGHT NOT WIN: Through no fault of his, audiences found the movie bewildering and the plot hard to follow and didn't take Syriana to heart. Voters admire cinematic ambition but avert their eyes from commercial failure...
Summers, speaking at the World Economic Forum, said the emergence of a U.S. economy dependent on imports—and, conversely, the rise of an export-based world economy—will require modification in order to avert a significant economic disruption...
...aggressive stance came on the same day that Gen. Michael Hayden, deputy director of the new national intelligence agency and former head of the NSA, defended the controversial electronic monitoring as a perfectly legal tool in the war on terror-and one that he even suggested might have helped avert the attacks of 9/11 if it had been in place then. Both speeches come on the heels of a speech Friday by White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, who signaled that Republicans will use the war on terror in the midterm elections as a way of drawing...
Then-Dean Joseph S. Nye raised enough money to avert the LRAP cuts, but the school’s website still says it “reserves its right to make alterations to the program at any time and at its discretion if necessary due to budgetary constraints...
...barks Borloo, who as France's Employment and Social Cohesion Minister has made revamping the country's blighted banlieues a personal crusade. Borloo insists that demolishing the "invisible but impenetrable walls" separating project residents from suitable housing, functioning public services and jobs is the only way for France to avert a repeat of the violence that wracked the suburbs over the past three weeks. "We need fluidity here," Borloo says. "More banlieues flowing into the towns, and more from the towns gushing out to the banlieues." Though Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin were the most...