1.   The recession could be avoided if business keeps a firm grip on its costs.

2.   Already his fiscal advisers have chucked their ideological commitment to free markets in order to manipulate the economy in hopes of avoiding a recession.

3.   And now the best hope of avoiding a recession is more strong investment.

4.   As the U.S. economy struggles to avoid recession, the roof over your head may be more important than you realize.

5.   Avoiding a recession, of course, is hardly a guarantee for any incumbent.

6.   But all of a sudden they have been resurrected as a lifeline that may be needed to avoid a recession.

7.   But buying junk debt today means a bet that the economy will avoid a recession and begin to bounce back by year-end.

8.   But when the economy avoided the recession that many analysts had predicted, the wealth effect did not look so potent.

9.   But while expressing confidence that the economy will avoid a recession, he nonetheless scaled back his estimates of future consumer outlays because of the weak job market.

10.   --Europe and the United States will avoid recessions.