Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard lays off maids today, what is to prevent it from laying off janitors tomorrow?" he asked. "There should be more security offered the workers, and an independent union like HUERA just can not offer the protection a large union like...
...This Lunacy." As the five victims of the shooting spree convalesced in hospitals, authorities in Puerto Rico and on the mainland moved swiftly to prevent further bloodshed and to squelch the Nationalist Party. Soon after the shooting, Commonwealth Governor Luis Munoz Marin was in Washington to express to President Eisenhower the shocked "indignation" of his people for "this savage and unbelievable lunacy." On his return to San Juan, he ordered police to round up leaders of the Nationalists, Communists and other parties of violence...
...trucks and trailers, 1,400 tanks, halftracks and other combat vehicles, 175,000 rifles and machine guns. In September 1953, President Eisenhower stepped up this aid by $385 million. "We are not voting a giveaway program," the President said. "We are voting for the cheapest way we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of a most terrible significance to the U.S.A." Secretary of State Dulles warned Red China that full-scale aggression south into Indo-China "could not occur without grave consequences, which might not be confined to Indo-China." In January 1954, the U.S. ordered some...
Cambridge police yesterday climbed up elaborate scaffolding to prevent Hollywood producer Spires Skouras from removing tiles from the roof of the Lampeon building, on Bow St. Skouras was expressing his objection to the selection of his CinemaScope production. "The Robe," as number one on the Bow St. publication's list of the "ten worst movies at the year...
Lamont could prevent much of this practice by charging twice the replacement value for each missing book. But because a double charge would penalize unfairly those students who have actually lost a volume, it should be modified. Any student reporting a book missing within two days after the book is due should pay only the replacement value. Such a plan would prevent most abuses and achieve the only real purpose of library fines--getting books back into circulation...