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The primary benefit of this rule, as described in the economic analyses, is the costs that would be averted by reducing the risk of BSE becoming established and proliferating in the United States through feed.
The New York City rent-decontrol apocalypse has been averted.
After six days of eyeball-to-eyeball challenge (now known in the US as the “Cuban Missile Crisis”), the potential nuclear disaster was averted when Khrushchev backed down in return for a US promise never to invade Cuba.
Observers said the Y2K bug's threat 1) was averted thanks to diligent preparation; 2) had been exaggerated by greedy programmers so that customers would commission expensive repairs; and 3) won't pass until companies and governments have used their "backroom systems," which were not repaired as thoroughly as critical programs.
If a treatment focus limits the effectiveness of prevention, on the other hand, the total number of averted infections between 2004 and 2020 would be 9 million.