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By increasing the efficiency of its US fleet of trucks, Walmart avoided the emission of nearly 650,000 metric tons of CO2 from 2005 to 2015, and saved nearly $1 billion in 2016 alone.
Japan's Leadership MuddleOSAKA – Having seen a new prime minister every year for five consecutive years, Japan has just narrowly avoided having its third in 2010.
In these posts, Kan avoided involvement with the two issues that wrecked Hatoyama’s premiership: the controversial base relocation issue, and debates over budget cuts.
In addition to all of this, the possibility of the UK’s break-up – narrowly avoided by the result of the Scottish referendum on independence in 2014 – is now back on the table, but this time with a context much more credible for the pro-independence cause.
If a geostrategic catastrophe is to be avoided, the unholy alliance of religion and nationalism must be broken.
No other economy has ever experienced such a boom and avoided a financial crisis or major growth setback.
If that is to be avoided, continued leadership from the top – above all from Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev – will be indispensable.
Other forms of human-animal conflict can be avoided with simple, mobile-phone apps.
But Morsi has not explicitly endorsed peace with Israel and has avoided direct engagement with Israeli leaders.
Likewise, it is negligent to focus on inefficiently cutting CO2 now because of costs in the distant future that in reality will not be avoided.
Its banks avoided the boom-bust cycle of the past decade, having learned from the banking collapse in 2000-2001.
If an even greater catastrophe than what is now taking place is to be avoided, external intervention is essential.
Having reached the epiphany that financial restructuring must be avoided at all costs, the governments of the world have in turn cast a huge safety net over banks (and whole countries in Eastern Europe), woven from taxpayer dollars.
The bitterest part of the tragedy is that it could have been avoided.
Political populism is a menace to be avoided at all costs.
Peace was maintained and dependence on foreign aid was largely avoided.
In some of these countries, conservative governments viewed industrial promotion as some dirigiste relic from the past, and avoided it.
By winning more than 50% of the vote, Rouhani avoided a second round of voting, just as he did four years ago when he claimed the presidency for the first time.
Outside interference should always be avoided in situations such as this.
For many years, Mexico avoided service on the Security Council, thinking that a seat there would entail many costs and few benefits.
I believe that the West can learn a great deal about what to do by studying the policies pursued in the world's only two mid-development Moslem states, Tunisia and Indonesia, because each successfully avoided becoming prey to Islamic fundamentalism.
It is mistakenly assumed to be highly contagious, and therefore sufferers are to be avoided at all costs.
The global imbalances could be cured, and conflicts avoided, only by greater international cooperation.
About 150-180 million tobacco deaths would be avoided before 2050 if the proportion of adults in developing countries who quit smoking increases from below 5% today to 30-40% by 2020 (like current quit rates in Canada).
Either officials recognize immediately the inevitability of default and waste no resources trying to prevent it, or they believe that a default can be avoided and deploy all the resources at their disposal as fast as possible.
For example, with a nominal-GDP target, the ECB could have avoided its mistake in July 2008, when, just as the economy was going into recession, it responded to a spike in world oil prices by raising interest rates to fight consumer price inflation.
Likewise, the Fed might have avoided the mistake of excessively easy monetary policy in 2004-06 (when annual nominal GDP growth exceeded 6%).
Overheating having been avoided, the Chinese economy can keep motoring ahead at its customary 10% annual pace.
The forcible removal of an elected president should have been avoided – the liberal opposition could have eased popular anger by demanding that the government make some concessions until legislative elections, which had been set for later this year.
This stance conveniently avoided rows with oil dictators.
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