After Boehner's experience with the wingnut "Tea Party candidates who won", I'm sure the GOP establishment is determined to avoid future such debacles.

To the Editor: Tom Petri and Bert Ely (Op-Ed, Oct. 5) are right that more Government regulation is not the way to avoid debacles like the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management.

Many experts see such changes, which would be subject to approval by Congress, as crucial to avoiding further debacles like the savings and loan crisis.

France, Britain and other countries are setting up the force in Bosnia to avoid debacles like the one this week, when lightly armed peacekeepers were helpless against a Serbian advance.

As a result, said Ahmad Meidari, a member of the Parliament's Commission on the Economy, the government has now decided to go slow on privatization to avoid similar debacles.

So far they have avoided debacles of the magnitude that hit the Eastern Shoshone.

To avoid such debacles, acousticians are devising mathematical models that can be tested on computers before concrete is poured.

The agency, however, intent on avoiding future debacles like the faulty Bjork-Shiley artificial heart valves implicated in some 300 deaths, says that the industry will simply have to reconcile itself to a greater degree of scrutiny than in years past.

Election officials are working to avoid debacles like the confusing "butterfly ballot" of 2000.

But some lawmakers want to limit condemnation powers to avoid debacles like those that have occurred.