Will we be sufficiently clear-eyed and rational to take a similarly bold action to avoid disaster wrought by our dysfunctional health care system?
This week's story about John Kerry's botched joke tells us what we already know - that constant attention on everything a politician says or does requires an unusual level of discipline and skill to avoid disaster.
The firm said its scheme had been designed to avoid the disaster site.
Yet the report errs in seeking to identify the riskiest parts of banks, forgetting perhaps that supposedly safe retail banks fail all the time, rather than concentrating on identifying the parts of banks that would have to be rescued in a crisis in order to avoid economic disaster.
If he is to avoid a similar disaster, he must come up with a clear policy on business-labour issues, and then show some resolve.
So rather than drill for more fossil fuels, we must keep 80 percent of those reserves locked away safely underground to avoid a climate disaster.
Mr Netanyahu, his mind on the coming election, is desperately anxious to avoid a public-relations disaster.
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The government says it is determined to avoid its predecessors' habit of abandoning disaster victims to their fate.
The Russian navy has received a new nuclear missile submarine which has an escape capsule, to avoid any repetition of the 2000 Kursk disaster.
This in turn helped the organization avoid security breaches that would interfere with its work providing medical care to war zones and disaster areas.
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"You can be sure Carnival wants to avoid reliving this experience in court, because it has, of course, been a public relations disaster, " Toobin said Friday.
Fulham manager Roy Hodgson was understandably keen for his team to avoid a road trip and claimed the 1, 140-mile round trip would be a "disaster" for the 2, 500 Fulham fans who have bought tickets for the game.
Given the time it would take to clear up any disaster, he says, Brazil may block BP or delay the offshore drilling as they are eager to avoid any catastrophe in 2014 and 2016 when the nation will be in the world spotlight for the FIFA World Cup and the summer Olympics.
And at the same time, much more basically, we must deal with the need of rebuilding Haiti, thanks to an effective decentralization policy -- namely, offering health care, education, jobs to all Haitians, men and women, regardless of where they live in the country, in order to prevent migratory flows towards the big cities, towards Port-au-Prince, and that will help avoid that disaster such as the earthquake would cause so many victims.
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