Word: averting
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SOUTHERN AFRICA Food Emergency The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) warned that more than 5 million people faced starvation as the effects of a regional drought worsened. Launching an appeal for urgent international funding to avert a humanitarian crisis, the WFP said the number needing emergency relief in the region was expected to double in the next few months. The agency is already trying to feed 2.6 million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe...
...Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center—where more than a third of Harvard’s medical students and residents receive training—remains in dire financial straits and Hyman has said that the University would hope to avert any sale of the hospital to a for-profit company...
...Noted "It seems quite clear now that our economy maybe never suffered a recession." PAUL O'NEILL, U.S. Treasury Secretary, who believes that the U.S. economy began expanding early enough last year to avert an actual recession...
...imperfections. Until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 created a small city's worth of grieving families and the government established an unprecedented fund to compensate them, the mathematics of loss was a little-known science. Now the process is on garish display, and it is tempting to avert the eyes...
...Sunday), Jean Reno (The Professional , Ronin) and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (X-Men, Dirty Work), this film depicts a future in which corporations, instead of countries, govern the people of the world. The story focuses on an extremely popular sport called Rollerball— created by executives in order to avert attention from their tyrannical control over the general populace, the show gradually becomes more and more violent as the man in charge, Alexis Petrovich (Reno), realizes that more violence means higher ratings, which, of course, means both more money and less attention paid towards the “government...