Word: pre-empt
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...educators went before the FCC, they were not yet ready to say just how they would run or finance their TV channels if they got them. All they were after right now, in General Taylor's words: to "see to it that commercial television does not pre-empt all the television channels and thus 'freeze out' the educators...
...speech to the Boy Scouts, who were celebrating their 31st anniversary, made a statement that many a businessman would like to believe: "The Government cannot and should not pre-empt those fields of private endeavor that have become an indispensable part of life in America." This remark, so opposite to the oldtime Roosevelt denunciations of entrenched greed, gave color to reports of his new attitude of "sweet reasonableness" toward industry...
Last August, after 20-year-old Yehudi Menuhin announced he would give Robert Schumann's "lost" violin concerto its world premiere (TIME Aug. 23), the German Government announced it would pre-empt the initial hearing for its official anniversary Reichskultürkammer in Berlin. In Richmond, Va. last fortnight, Violinist Menuhin listened to a short-wave broadcast of Aryan George Kulenkampff's interpretation of the concerto, praised the German as "a violinist of the first rank" regretted that "the edition played was not the original." Father Moshe Menuhin was less complacent: "It was Yehudi who discovered it. ... Kulenkampff...
...Indian Ocean side of the continent Sir Douglas Mawson and the Norwegians were studying the seas for whale and other marine life, and trying to pre-empt some of the shores for their countries. Both made nominal claim to short sectors...