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But as with SPX, things had changed by day’s end and the crisis was averted for now.

The University of California and a union representing 21,000 healthcare, research and technical professionals across the UC system reached a contract agreement and averted a strike, the university and union announced Saturday.

Mr. Woodard offers some provocative thoughts on how the crisis might be averted “before it brings down the republic and shatters our federation.”

“By the slightest margin of chance,” he’d later admit, “literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted.”

On four prior occasions, attorneys reached last-minute settlements that averted a trial.