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Without the analytical aid of a computer system, Mr. Bryant said, the bureau's counterterrorism program would be hobbled, particularly if the goal was to avert a crime.

However, polls in the wake of national tragedies like the slaughter of schoolchildren in Newtown, CT found the country uncertain as to the effectiveness of gun control laws in averting such crimes.

Most Chinese news Web sites had buried the initial reports from Wednesday, ostensibly to avert further copycat crimes, though the government often censors news that conflicts with the official propaganda image of a "harmonious society".

If the intervention is successful in reducing persistent conduct disorder, cost savings may arise from reduced use of health services, education support, social care, voluntary agencies and from crimes averted.

Too often in this century, nations and peoples that should have known better have exhibited a propensity for excusing or for averting their eyes from crimes of unimaginable horror and scale.

Also, the things people do to avoid becoming victims -- like avoiding dangerous districts -- have a cost even if they succeed in averting an actual crime.

They averted their gazes from the great crimes.

Had the CIA abducted Bin Laden from Afghanistan in the late 1990s (a course whose feasibility the agency investigated), some great crimes might have been averted.

Not one of these crimes could have been averted by using any of the expensive safeguards businesses use to protect their PCs from outsiders.

Although that draconian possibility was averted, Manning still was convicted of 20 crimes, including Espionage Act offenses, itself an ominous warning that could deter future whistleblowers from exposing government wrongdoing.

Using Nevin's (2006) estimate of the annual number of crimes that could have been averted with a 1-μg/dL reduction in the average preschool blood lead, the total direct costs of lead-linked crime can be computed.