Word: averting
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...Cambridge community should be aware of what is happening in our building. Since the Rent Control Board has not yet decided on these cases, it should be able to avert the sudden increase and rein in this kind of unbridled landlord activity. Eleven Tenants of 472-474 Broadway
...structure of Marsha Norman's Pulitzer-prizewinning play was pure melodrama. An unhappy fortyish woman announces to her mother that she intends to take her own life that evening; the older woman tries many stratagems to avert the plan but fails in all of them. Improbable as this plot was, it permitted Norman to explore with sensitivity a dramatically less riveting, emotionally more subtle matter: an archetypally vexatious mother-daughter relationship. In adapting play to screen, Norman and Director Tom Moore have been somewhat undone by their new medium's imperatives. The realism of camera close-ups turns probability into...
...made to fit -- just about all the known facts about the 007 tragedy." David Pearson, a doctoral candidate at Yale, has argued in the Nation magazine that top U.S. officials must have known at the time that KAL 007 was off course and did nothing to avert the disaster, perhaps because they hoped to gain intelligence data...
...night -- and peace -- ebbed. It was claimed that this was the last time North and South met on friendly ground. On the day Jefferson Davis was sworn in as President of the Confederacy, delegates from 21 of the 34 states gathered quietly in Willard Hall to try to avert disaster. They failed...
...avert a collapse, coalition leaders devised a complex face-saving formula. Under it, Shamir and Moda'i would swap jobs, with Shamir taking over the finance portfolio and Moda'i becoming Foreign Minister. The assignments would last until next fall, when Shamir becomes Prime Minister. Moda'i could then return to the Finance Ministry...