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Word: avert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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Plans even call for Homer to avert a nuclear meltdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Simpsons' Spurs Ire of Nuclear Industry | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...kind of asleep at the wheel and wakes up when there's an alarm, and doesn't know which button to press, so he goes eeney-meeney-miney-mo and hits a button and does avert a meltdown," Simon said. "He becomes a hero and feels guilty about it. It's not a politically charged episode...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Simpsons' Spurs Ire of Nuclear Industry | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...creditors nor clients who pulled the plug on the failing firm; it was Laventhol's partners themselves. Confronted by an $85 million bank debt and enormous litigation costs, the partners decided they could not afford to save the firm. "My management team and I did all we could to avert this tragedy," moaned Levine, "but the clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKRUPTCY: Laventhol's Number Is Up | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...daily, posed the question haunting all Soviet consumers as they prepare for the coming winter: ARE WE THREATENED WITH HUNGER? President Mikhail Gorbachev has roundly dismissed what he calls "conjectures of a coming famine." In industrial centers like Leningrad, however, local authorities plan to introduce wide-scale rationing to avert the worst consumer shortages since the end of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Give Us Our Daily Bread | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...avert it? My recommendation would be to spike the water with Prozac. Just mix it in with the fluoride. I'm serious! Highly diluted, of course, and tapering off after just a few months, as soon as we get off this gloom-and- doom kick. Because more than we'd like to think, economic and financial swings are creatures of fuzzy, nonquantitative things like psychology, confidence and the national mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Give Greed Another Chance | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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