Word: averting
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...fire in the] recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field ... would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century ... To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners ... have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair ... Flame-haired "Red" Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fights [and has] set up his own company ... Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices ... have tamed 50 wells in Bahrain, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair...
...Time is not on our side." THOMAS KEAN, chairman of the 9/11 commission, urging adoption of its recommendations to make changes in U.S. intelligence gathering to avert another terrorist attack...
...alternative is being a "mule," smuggling heroin into the U.S. That involves swallowing packets of the drug (62 of them in her case) in Colombia and excreting them once she has cleared customs in El Norte. It's ugly work (you may want to avert your eyes while she is endlessly swallowing the drugs)--and dangerous too. If a packet breaks, the heroin will kill the carrier. But, of course, the money is great--thousands of dollars for a week's unpleasantness, enough to lift Maria's fractious family out of poverty and pay for the birth of the baby...
...ceiling, anytime soon. And the euro doesn't seem to be hurting from the violations - which raises the question of how crucial the stability and growth pact is in the first place. - With reporting by Tadeusz L. Kucharski Cutting Hedge The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to avert fraud in the growing $850 billion hedge fund industry, took a step toward requiring the funds' advisers to register with the regulator and open their books to inspection...
...added that it continues to be important to avert conflicts of interest stemming from researcher ties with outside companies...