The firm said its scheme had been designed to avoid the disaster site.

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The Russian navy has received a new nuclear missile submarine which has an escape capsule, to avoid any repetition of the 2000 Kursk disaster.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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