Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Police have stepped up protective measures to avert any possible increase in crime. Police recently instituted a student security patrol. Six students are on patrol along with the usual number of police. "We need as many eyes as we can get," Kenny said...
...mineral resources, agricultural production, cheap energy, effectiveness of population control, etc., the computer yielded the same results. It pointed to a global crisis marked by great famines, depletion of natural resources and disastrous pollution of the seas and atmosphere. Only drastic restrictions on all types of economic growth could avert the calamity, he insisted...
...songs Yarrow performed Sunday are on That's Enough For Me. The album is uneven, one or two of the songs very ordinary, but Yarrow's voice and the arrangements almost always avert real disappointment. The Maytals, a Jamaican reggae group, are used to good effect, and if Yarrow's version of "The Harder They Come" falls short of Jimmy Cliff, how could it do otherwise...
...with the right moving to make Bok's suggestion a reality, and the left mobilizing to avert any such action, those of us who weren't present for the '69 confrontations--which largely focused on the issue of ROTC on campus--ought to familiarize ourselves with the events of the '68-'69 academic year which led to the expulsion of ROTC from the Harvard campus...
Even the immediate settlement of the mill strikes (which does not seem likely) will not avert a shortage that may continue for three years. The problem is that while production of newsprint has remained about the same since 1970, demand has risen steadily. U.S. papers gobbled up 10.3 million tons of newsprint last year, an increase from 9.6 million tons in 1970; consumption for the first six months this year ran 5.4% higher than the 1972 rate. Caught flat-footed by this surge, neither U.S. purchasers nor Canadian suppliers see any quick solution. New paper mills are costly ($50 million...