So, it looks like Chile dodged two bullets.

He added that one of China's most prominent newspapers dodged the offer to publish his article, although he did not say which newspaper.

Well, we seem to have dodged the deadly pandemic this year that most of us feared, but this threat could reappear at any time.

Even though we've dodged Paul Ehrlich's population bomb, and we will not see 20 billion people in this decade, as he had forecast, we eat as if we were 20 billion.

The IMF has dodged responsibility for far more serious forecasting errors, including its failure to anticipate every major crisis of the last generation, from Mexico in 1994 1995 to the near collapse of the global financial system in 2008. Indeed, in the 6 12 months prior to every crisis, the IMF s forecasts implied business as usual.

They point out that Turkey s military has ousted four elected governments since 1960, and continues to play an inappropriately large role in Turkish politics. While the high court decision and the appeal to the electorate means that Turkish democracy has dodged a bullet for now, the progress of Turkey s EU accession negotiations has been further slowed.