Word: averting
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...seen another mushroom cloud but for the politics of restraint and the memory of Hiroshima and its victims. But with the shift from cold war conflicts to unconventional suicide bombings and the quest by Middle Eastern countries for nuclear arms, are sufficient international measures being put in place to avert another atomic holocaust? Darlington Owhoji Abuja, Nigeria
...constant truth in this discipline that by the time you've figured out what Islamists are up to, they've already moved on to something else," the French official says. At another point, he says, "We work tirelessly. We use every means at our disposal to discover and avert attacks. And we work as much as possible with our partners." Sometimes, he adds, the work pays off and attacks are averted; he mentions the bust of a Paris-based cell a couple of years ago. "But when we see what it was these people had in store...
...spend so much of our tax money on defense yet put our servicemen on planes that are unfit to fly [NATION, Dec. 23]. Our 248 young men and women should not have died in Newfoundland. We must do something to avert further tragic waste of life. Cheri Hansen Yorba Linda, Calif...
...impending financial disaster squarely on the President's desk. Or why, if others thwarted his honest intentions, he did not resign. His self-exoneration--describing how he was flitting here and there in righteous dismay, confronting all those mindless Californians around Reagan, struggling to "work from within" to avert the catastrophe he so clearly saw before him--does not go down well. He confesses to being too enamored of power. Yet he leaves no doubts that he considered his morality of a higher order, his intelligence superior...
...Haven still on the fringes of the Ivy race. Harvard was nearly knocked out of Yale’s gym in the early going, but rallied to stay within striking distance. The Crimson had three shots at the game winner in the final seconds, but was unable to avert a 54-53 Bulldogs victory...