AS THE country with the European Union's fastest-ageing population, Germany has repeatedly tweaked its pension system to avert a slow-motion demographic disaster.
[Page A1.] Microsoft to Alter Online System To avert a clash with European regulators over data privacy, Microsoft has agreed to make "radical" changes to.Net Passport, its online authentication system.
The Guardian first reported that, in 2008, Rosenthal suggested gaming water tests results for a separate, suburban Detroit water system to avert issuing a "public notice", which would have alerted residents of dangerously high lead levels.
I.M.F. officials credited the United States for moving to fix its financial system to avert a recurrence of the banking crisis that nearly brought down the economy in 2008, but also expressed reservations.
Monetary policy makers have said that the tool — reverse repurchase agreements, also known as reverse repos — could be one way to drain excess reserves when the time comes to reduce the amount of credit that the central bank has provided to the banking system to avert the risk of inflation.
At the ceremony, Mr. Biden was especially effusive, crediting Mr. Obama with fighting to win $1 billion for the federal Community Oriented Policing Services or "COPS" program that Mr. Biden, as a senator, helped create in 1994, and for a new communications system to avert the breakdowns that first responders faced after the Sept. 11 attacks and during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Similar to Hosie and colleagues [ 117] who argued for reforms to the mental health system to avert unsustainable growth in demand for treatment, we believe there are multiple opportunities from before birth into early adulthood to reduce people's risk of developing mental illness.
In the forthcoming Boeing 787, two critical systems — one to avert collisions in flight and another to land in zero visibility — will be built to a substantial degree by HCL Technologies, an outsourcing firm that has its headquarters outside New Delhi.
Clarence Chandron, executive vice president for the Nortel Networks Corporation, said the group agreed that "we really need to focus on implementation now," including "a massive communications effort throughout the industry" to make sure other companies install the security systems needed to avert these kinds of attacks.
It acknowledged that the proposals would have to be accompanied by benefit cuts or other painful steps if the retirement system was to avert a long-term financial crisis.
