Word: averting
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...amount of aid the international community has pledged as a carrot to coax the fractious Afghans. The three days of talks that began Tuesday in Koenigswinter are aimed at finding agreement among various Afghan factions over some form of transitional g overnment to replace the Taliban - and avert a slide back into the civil war of the pre-Taliban era. Such a government would convene a broadly representative 'loya jirga' grand assembly within six months to discuss how the country ought to be ruled, and conduct national elections within two years...
...this sounds like bravado. But so did bin Laden's anti-American rants before Sept. 11. Al-Qaeda has agents in dozens of countries, including the U.S. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, to cite just three wartime American leaders, bent the peacetime structure of rights to avert national disaster. President Bush is right to follow their example. As Justice Robert Jackson said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact...
...must cut taxes, we should direct the cuts to those who would benefit most. By keeping working families afloat and assisting the unemployed, we would avert some of the worst aspects of a contracting economy: rampant crime and a national sense of failure. The proper tax cuts would fulfill a moral obligation to give those most in need a helping hand. It’s time that President Bush and his Republican colleagues stick up for the some of the ordinary folks who voted for them, rather than continuing to line the pockets of the wealthiest Americans...
...spectrum antibiotic. Overusing these drugs, physicians have long warned, will permit resistant strains to flourish. One of the scariest examples is the appearance in 1997 of a particularly potent strain of staph bacteria resistant to vancomycin, which used to be the last line of defense. It was partly to avert such a catastrophe that the CDC made its decision last week recommending the switch to doxycycline, which is seen as equally effective. "It would certainly be healthier to have a better balance of antibiotics in use in the population now," says CDC director Dr. Jeffrey Koplan. Healthier...
...while Ridge works toward long-term solutions, he should steer his agency away from immediate policy decisions, which are better left to experienced groups like FEMA. With threat of another terrorist catastrophe growing every minute, we cannot depend on a hastily constructed agency led by a security outsider to avert disaster...