Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial reasons to leave before taking their degree. Now that something like forty per cent of our men are married, this is becoming increasingly more common. They leave with good and serious intentions of returning when they have the money. One good reason gives way to another to prevent the man's ever finishing his work, and all too often the files of the dean's office become a last repository for uncompleted thesis projects...
McLaughlin's sprained ankle will keep him on the sidelines most of the time and Stahura's leg miseries will prevent him from operating at top effectiveness against the Philadelphians...
...conditions of labor recalled the early phase of the Industrial Revolution. "There was child labor working twelve to 14 hours a day for 15? and nonpayment of workers' health-insurance premiums−or any taxes, for that matter." Though the Iranian government has since moved to prevent the recurrence of such abuses, Ebtehaj conceded wistfully that underdeveloped lands need not only capital and technical know-how but the fair play traditions embodied in "your Common...
...adopting a less self-righteous attitude towards the forms of government of nations and a more realistic concept of Western interests, can serve its own cause far better than by making "right conduct" the only standard of foreign policy. In Syria, particularly, a revision of our viewpoint can prevent Russia from gaining a sphere of influence in the Arab world...
Aside from dropping, for the moment at least, the sword of righteousness, the United States must increase its economic aid program in the Middle East. Economic stability is still the surest weapon against Communism. Syria and its neighbors are still vulnerable to Marxist doctrine, and only financial security can prevent its spread...