Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wall Street and Washington agree that in order to avert such a calamity, brokerage accounts must be insured in the same way that bank accounts are. Last week President Nixon endorsed that idea in his economic speech. Just before the President spoke, a first-class fight broke out over how much, if any, increased Government regulation of the securities industry should accompany the insurance...
...look where ya goin'? Ya crazy or sump'n?" The way Wolff sees it, such comments indicate that New Yorkers, though inured to many other inconveniences, are not tolerant of sidewalk bumping; they expect some degree of cooperation from other pedestrians in order to avert collisions...
...Delaware, a prosperous white-collar state, a decline in Du Pont profits that began last year is expected to force reductions in state spending-most likely for educational television and enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. The Pennsylvania government had to extend an extra $15 million in aid to Philadelphia to avert a shutdown of the city's schools...
...doctor can quickly decide whether the Pill carries an unacceptable risk for this particular patient. If it does, he is ethically obliged to refuse her the prescription and to suggest some other contraceptive such as a diaphragm or IUD. If all U.S. doctors followed these rules they could avert many, perhaps a majority, of the severe and fatal Pill reactions now being reported...
Tony Rayner moved up from 177 to replace Scanlon, and it took a great effort to avert a pin. Using several excellent moves, the Engineers' Walt Price had Rayner in two predicaments en route...