One presumes that Commissioner David Stern and the network executives will rest easy too, now that the Eastern Conference's most star-studded team has avoided a spectacular upset.
Although this time the death toll is far worse the Indian government has avoided blaming Pakistan and so risk upsetting the relatively cordial relations between the two nuclear powers.
Sue Bird is much too modest to say that, had she played, Connecticut would have avoided an upset by Iowa State in the regional semifinals of last year's national tournament in Cincinnati.
The test was conducted on May 6, during a visit to Washington by President Asif Ali Zardari, but was not made public by Pakistani officials until three days after the meetings had ended to avoid upsetting the talks.
But Mr Prodi has tried hard to avoid upsetting the United States in the way Spain's Socialists did when they took power from pro-American conservatives two years ago.The Italians want to get their soldiers out of Iraq, as did the Spanish.
American commanders would prefer that Pakistani forces attack the militants, but Pakistani military operations in the tribal areas have slowed recently to avoid upsetting the negotiations.
"When you're small, each new member of staff has an enormous impact on the company culture, and everything had to be carefully managed to avoid upsetting the balance".
The Big Society is still alive - but Conservative ministers do not talk about it any more to avoid upsetting the Lib Dems, Oliver Letwin has said.
Their thought process continued: Mr. Bernanke must know how much weight his words carry, and he always speaks very carefully to avoid upsetting the apple cart, so his utterance must have been deliberate and must have had a motive.
Convinced it had a winner, Ultimate delayed the release of Knight Lore for some months to avoid upsetting the market for its other games.
