Word: averting
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...travel and public appearances. The presence of the world's Cardinals at the anniversary gathering will prompt speculation about John Paul's successor, and perhaps raise fresh questions about whether the Pope should retire. A papal resignation last took place in 1294 - when Celestine V stepped down to avert a potential schism in the Church - and it is permissible under Church law if the Pontiff is no longer capable of carrying out his duties. John Paul's biographer, Giancarlo Zizola, says the gathering of the Cardinals would be the ideal occasion for the Pope to surprise the world with...
...more and more, students are finding that this kind of rooming makes life at Harvard bearable. Co-ed blocking groups abound, queer students don’t necessarily want roommates of the same sex, and lovers move in together while tutors avert their eyes. (Of course, queer live-in relationships happily escape the College’s puritanical eye—double standard...
Developers must build more housing units to avert a housing crisis across socioeconomic levels, Clinton’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development said at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) last night...
...federal entitlement since 1965, a prescription-drug benefit for seniors. The official cost over 10 years is $400 billion, but given rocketing prices for drugs, it could well be far higher. At the same time, he has done nothing substantive to reform Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security to avert the looming burden of the baby boomers' retirement years...
Your report said little about how inefficient the government is in authenticating intelligence from abroad. When terrorism assumes a global character, intelligence agencies around the world need to share information to avert horrifying incidents like 9/11. Who in the government is accountable for verifying information from overseas, a major factor for the coalition-led war on Iraq? UJJWAL BHATTACHARJEE Lowell, Mass...