Word: prevent
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Five Years Lost. For five years, the key aim of Soviet foreign policy in Europe was to prevent the firm establishment of a Western European alliance including a rearmed West Germany. With the ratification of the Paris accords, and the admission of the West German Republic into the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (TIME, May 23), those five years of Russian effort ended in dismal failure...
...because four full weeks had passed since Cutter inoculations were stopped, and the incubation period for polio is rarely more than 31 days, it seemed more likely that in the new Cutter cases the trouble was not defective vaccine, but the absence of a second shot in time to prevent a natural polio infection...
BOXCAR SCARCITY is slowing rail shipments. With carloadings at 774,419 weekly (up 13.6% from the same week of 1954), the shortage is running at an average of 6.552 cars daily. To prevent it from becoming critical, the U.S. Commerce Department and Office of Defense Mobilization are considering loans and subsidies to spur construction of new boxcars...
...after "penny stock" promoters who keep "most of the money" from the sale of their stock but dodge SEC by keeping their issues under $300,000, the cutoff point for SEC regulation of any kind. Further, SEC, the State Department and the Canadian government should join forces to prevent confidence men north of the border from selling "ten to 50 millions of dollars" in worthless securities every year in the U.S. The report also laid out the committee's future work; a subcommittee is now investigating the way proxy fights have been run, while the committee will probe...
Naturally, Reischauer has not abandoned his interest in U.S. foreign policy. He thinks that American policy is beginning to turn a corner, and that "the shift is all in the right direction." He points out, however, that the U.S. "should be trying to prevent crises, instead of waiting for them to surprise us. It has been this way for many years now--first Japan, then China, then Korea. I don't know what's creeping up on us now, but we ought to take a look at Africa and Indonesia...