1.   Clinton carefully avoided dire scenarios that might set edgy global markets aspin.

2.   How can the accident scenario be avoided in the future if we do not know what it really was?

3.   I still hope that the worst scenario can be avoided.

4.   Intense negotiations between union and management officials continued here Saturday in an effort to avoid that scenario.

5.   One way to avoid either scenario would be for Chicago to trade Roenick to the Islanders for a combination of current players and high draft choices in future seasons.

6.   The Norwegian government has started initiatives to avoid this scenario by increasing offshore oil development to ensure continued revenues.

7.   The pressure Jackson referred to was to avoid that scenario at all costs.

8.   Privately, Ulster Unionists said they wanted to avoid a scenario where they were seen meeting Blair behind closed doors, then softening their policy.

9.   Rendering the Cabinet powerless but intact would avoid that scenario.

10.   Shanghai has avoided nightmare scenarios of flooding in urban neighborhoods or among the office towers of its sleek new financial district.