Word: preempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just another round of deplorable abuses. By combining unprecedented censorship with Gestapo-like mass arrests, the white regime has demonstrated its determination to deny reality--to isolate South African whites from the war raging around them and to hide that struggle from the world. But in the attempt to preempt what a government spokesman termed the "revolutionary onslaught" of resistance groups, the white regime is forcing the country down the path to precisely such a violent and catastrophic revolution...
Even ideology and issues cannot be explored thoroughly in California's "Bye-Bye Birdie" campaign, as the Chief Justice's opponents have dubbed it. The 30-second commercials and sloganeering so basic to contemporary political campaigning preempt informed discussion. The syllogism, "The Chief Justice has generally voted against executions. I, however, favor them. Therefore I wish to remove her from the Court," typifies what will run through the minds of many voters as they mark their ballots. This kind of cheap politicization of the Court is precisely what the Founding Fathers sought to avoid when they wrote life tenure...
...prestigious award for research that most students--or most people for that matter--would find incomprehensible makes Herschbach all the more an example to the University at large. The lesson is that Harvard's often overriding emphasis on research--exemplified in the way it makes tenure decisions--need not preempt top scholars from a commitment to teaching...
...until Congress threatened to cut off aid and preempt Reagan, did he even threaten sanctions against Marcos. If there is a Reagan doctrine, it is certainly not active intervention to support the development of democratic regimes...
...SASC members are still asking why there wasa need to set up the the undertaking so quicklythis year when organizational difficulties plaguedthe undertaking. The partisan student activistsanswer their own question: it was an urgent efforton the part of the University to quickly justifyits investments in South Africa and to preempt astrong spring divestment protest season...