Word: avert
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Plans even call for Homer to avert a nuclear meltdown...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...