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...almost magical way, the existence of the charmed quark prohibits these unwanted and unseen decays, and brings the theory into agreement with experiment. Thus did my recent [1970] collaborators, John Iliopoulos, Luciano Maiani and I justify another definition of charm as a magical device to avert evil...
...team needs to avoid another tenth-place finish to avert a slip back into Division II, where they were mired until this year...
...things that motivated us [to choose Cox] was the suggestion by the Maine attorney general that Congress legislate the Indian claims out of existence or alter the rules under which the case would be tried, so we felt Professor Cox would be the best person to avert that kind of attack on the claim," Tureen said...
...November 1967 Vance achieved his greatest success-helping avert a war between Greece and Turkey over the disputed island of Cyprus. In 1968 he plunged into an equally arduous but less rewarding mission: serving as Ambassador Averell Harriman's deputy during the lengthy and unsuccessful Paris negotiations to settle the Viet Nam War. Although Vance had been an early supporter of the war, he gradually began urging that the U.S. agree to an eventual withdrawal of its troops as one condition of a ceasefire. Later he criticized Richard Nixon for taking too hard a line with the North Vietnamese...
...Africa. You don't realize how strong Vorster is. This is what makes me anxious about Kissinger's settlement; there is nothing that Kissinger got from the Rhodesians that Vorster hasn't wanted for two years. Vorster wants a black government in Rhodesia. Kissinger's settlement, although meant to avert race war, just plays into the hands of the Afrikaaner regime...