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He stayed on in the White House after Nixon resigned in hopes that Gerald Ford might nominate him ambassador to South Africa, a position that would allow him help forestall what he once called the "idiotic" idea of one-man, one-vote.
The NYT reports that after meeting in Moscow with Boris Yeltsin, Milosevic, in an attempt to forestall NATO military action against his forces, pledged to provide relief groups and international monitors with access to Albanians in Kosovo province and to make arrangements for Albanian refugees to return there.
It’s so dry and (except for winter) hot in the oasis that tourists are advised to drink as much tea or juice as possible to forestall dehydration.
With Rubin's help, Clinton managed to forestall a Mexican financial collapse in 1995, which posed an underappreciated threat to the U.S. economy's recovery, then in its fifth year.
In Morton's hands, Monica's is the same old tale of female victimization, but--just as she did before the Senate, thereby helping to forestall impeachment--she manages to shift the blame.