Word: avert
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...usual, the voting was staggered over four Sundays to permit the government to concentrate police and army on one area at a time. As usual, the Parliament seats were allotted according to religious sects, a device designed to avert the religious strife that ravaged Lebanon for years. Figuring that Christians outnumber Moslems 6 to 5. 45 places of the Parliament's 99 seats were apportioned to the Moslems (subdivided into three sects) and 54 to Christians (30 Maronite Roman Catholic, eleven Greek Orthodox, six Greek Catholic, four Armenian Orthodox, one Armenian Catholic, one Protestant, one miscellaneous minorities). This convention...
Emergency Regulation. To avert more cancellations, Eastern went to a federal court in Miami, got a temporary restraining order requiring Eastern pilots to give the forward observer's seat to FAA inspectors. Quesada, stung by what he termed A.L.P.A.'s "arrogant defiance of the Government," rushed through an emergency Civil Air Regulation, requiring the forward observer's seat to be turned over to FAA inspectors. For pilots who balk. Old Pilot Quesada laid down the penalty that hurts most - suspension of a pilot's license. Rather than disobey the court order and the new FAA regulation...
...British merchants have been buying from the U.S. at a record clip. In the first quarter of 1960, U.S. sales to Great Britain are up 61%. But British sales to the U.S. are up only 14%. Great Britain has opened a drive to increase sales to the U.S. to avert a return to the unpopular import restrictions...
Deliberate Man. To avert such a blood bath, Song deliberately set out to jolt Rhee out of the presidency. In three successive interviews, the general hammered at Rhee with heavy hints that if the students rioted again, the Korean army would probably refuse to shoot or even to quell them, and the two U.S. divisions manning the border with North Korea might well be withdrawn from the peninsula. Rhee listened, but temporized...
...world. Members of the International Air Transport Association sliced off 16% on mid-Atlantic runs, e.g., South America to southern Europe, 6% to 10% on flights from Europe to Asia. The cuts, which will go into effect May 1 and Oct. 1. were designed in part to avert price wars between I.A.T.A. members in areas where they were being undercut by other airlines. In some cases, propeller ticket prices were cut more than jet-flight fares. The airlines will also drop the de luxe and tourist-fare classes, offer only first-and economy-class travel...