Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seventh grade girls in Queens, New York City. The pupils did not wish to join in the pledge, and had been suspended for refusing to obey their teacher's orders to leave the room. The New York school board was understandably concerned about the need to "prevent disorders that may develop as the reaction of infuriated members of the majority," observed Judge Orrin G. Judd. But the girls had not disrupted the class, and "the Constitution does not recognize fears of a disorderly reaction as ground for resisting peaceful expressions of views." The standing majority, in effect...
Government and business will be forced to spend ever increasing sums-possibly $10 billion to $20 billion a year, in Herman Kahn's estimate-to control pollution of air and water and to prevent the destruction of natural beauty. Already, the young seem to be turning their protest to problems of the environment, organizing demonstrations against irresponsible corporations and municipalities. In the next few years, increasing attention will be paid to shoddy development and the infamous urban sprawl; it will be widely recognized that like most forms of pollution, defiling of the landscape, whether it be with shopping centers...
...there anything to prevent the Defense Department from using the Cambridge Project to serve other purposes than the ones you mentioned...
There is nothing to prevent anybody from using the Project data for any purpose...
...story (News Analysis) on Project Cambridge in the December 4th CRIMSON conveyed the impression that the Harvard Administration was attempting to prevent debate on the matter in the Faculty meeting two days earlier. I believe that two facts that were not in view at the meeting can account for this impression and when taken into account can relieve the Administration of blame in this situation...