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Elsewhere, advertising group WPP is facing a row with its investors after handing its founder and chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell, a 30% rise in his salary to £1.3m, while insurer Aviva has attempted to avert a rebellion at its annual general meeting on Thursday by announcing that chief executive Andrew Moss will not accept the 4.8% rise that would have pushed his £960,000 salary above £1m.
In a final drive for 46 yards, Maryland attempted to avert a shutout.
Argentina and other countries attempted to avert a full-scale naval arms race by offering to purchase one of the two dreadnoughts.
The coup was carried out by hard-line Communist Party, KGB, and military officials attempting to avert a new liberalized union treaty and return to the old-line party values.
Meanwhile in a separate dispute management from CrossCountry trains have been in talks with RMT officials, attempting to avert a strike planned for Friday which would affect their services on the East Coast Mainline.
Or ask Egyptian telecom authorities, who attempted to avert "chaos" by resorting to the blunt instrument of severed wires; an entire country was disconnected, at least temporarily, from the global network.
She attempted to avert the worse of two terrible outcomes: the loss of her daughters' lives along with her own.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has attempted to avert strike action by inviting the Head of the Medical Students committee, Johann Malawana, to talks.
While the civil servant Katharine Gun attempted to avert the Iraq war by leaking information about US diplomatic blackmail, provoking international outrage.
As reporter for the constitutional revision committee, he attempted to avert the final confrontation between the president and the legislature, which ended with an executive seizure of dictatorial power.
