Word: avert
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...preservation of species is a task involving a volatile mix of biology, politics, economics and morality. For 17 years the Endangered Species Act has provided a "911" distress line for life forms teetering on the edge. But its species-by-species approach does little to avert conflict. Man cannot manage nature through a series of ad hoc rescue attempts, ignoring the underlying causes for the loss of biodiversity. The answer is not to dilute the Endangered Species Act but to better anticipate the consequences of human activity, focusing on entire ecosystems rather than on single species. By the time...
...Donald Jacobs, dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In large part, the U.S. and the world are paying for the excesses of the 1980s, in which companies, consumers and speculators lived far beyond their means. It may take as much global leadership and cooperation to avert a worldwide recession as it will to remove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait...
Nothing, except that liberal activist judges have often made it extremely difficult to defend even the most reasonable selection criteria. As a result, many employers institute racial and sex quotas to avert the risk of costly litigation. No adverse impact, no complaints. No complaints, no litigation. Warped interpretations of Griggs, which the Kennedy bill restores, could toss common standards of competence, intelligence and hard work out the window...
Khrushchev's relatives and friends feared, however, that the former Kremlin ruler had sometimes gone too far in fulminating against the shortcomings of the Soviet system, denouncing political figures who were still alive and exposing what the authorities would consider state secrets. So, to avert reprisals, they held back some of the tapes...
...nowhere near agreement last week on how to pare $50 billion from the 1991 deficit and $500 billion over the next five years. If a deal is not reached by Oct. 1, the government could face $100 billion of across-the-board budget cuts. While lawmakers contemplated legislation to avert that sweeping move, the White House threatened to veto such a measure in order to force a resolution of the budget deadlock. Said President Bush at week's end: "We're down to the wire...