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...Bush Administration moved swiftly to avert any sense of crisis after the market closed. Declared Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady: "It's important to recognize that today's stock market decline doesn't signal any fundamental change in the condition of the economy. The economy remains well balanced, and the outlook is for continued moderate growth." But Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey, who chairs a House subcommittee on telecommunications and finance, vowed to hold hearings this week on the stock market slide. Said he: "This is the second heart attack. My hope is that before we have the inevitable third heart attack...
...Socialists force elections in the parliament's lower house before next year, as they hope to do, there is also the remote possibility that for the first time in party history, the L.D.P. will be banished to the back benches. To avert that prospect, warns L.D.P. legislator Shirakawa, "we need to find the reasons for our losses and then show the people that we have corrected them." That is a tall order to fill, and the L.D.P. has no time to lose...
...quick and masterful rescue operation helped avert catastrophe. Within hours, four Norwegian and two Soviet helicopters began plucking passengers and crewmen out of the boats and carrying them to safety aboard the Norwegian vessel Senja, which reached the accident site after plowing through ice up to 6 ft. thick...
...Harvard officials order the destruction of the Gulf Station on Mass Ave., seeking to avert the legal hassles that would ensue if the building were allowed to reach 50 years of age. The decision 1993 the contract of City Manager Robert W. oppose Harvard Real Estate's proposal to build a five-story hotel on the land and from faculty members, who have already asked the University to consider using the site for library or office space...
...social problem of these dimensions cries out for close, active attention. We can no longer avert our eyes, admitting that there is a problem but refusing to confront it; neither can we become so hardened to the problem that compassion and empathy no longer exist. If the latter scenario ever becomes commonplace, we will have lost the last remnants of our humanity...