Democrats said they were open to a substantial tax cut, and clearly do not want to be blamed for blocking action that could help forestall a recession.
"Don't Blame Wal-Mart," by Robert B. Reich (Op-Ed, Feb. 28), suggests that the best way to forestall the substantial economic and social problems associated with Wal-Mart is to change federal labor and offshoring laws.
This goes to the root of our primitive conviction that death can't ever be "natural," that it must always have an agent, someone specific to blame and to punish as if, by locating the agent of death, we could forestall death.
This goes to the root of our primitive conviction that death can't ever be "natural," that it must always have an agent, someone specific to blame and to punish — as if, by locating the agent of death, we could forestall death.
Jacoby sees a new ageism that doesn't just stigmatize old people for their years, but blames them for physical ills that no lifestyle adjustments or medicine can yet forestall.
Second, to forestall further chaos.
Instead, they blame several of his brothers, including Ahmed Wali Karzai, the political boss of Kandahar and southern Afghanistan, for trying to hush up relatives and forestall an official inquiry, perhaps with the president's knowledge.
But that may just forestall the inevitable.
To forestall such failures banks maintain equity.
Can John forestall nuclear disaster?
Also, it did nothing to forestall foreclosures.
