Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arson is one of the easiest crimes to commit and the hardest to prevent-and prosecute. District Attorneys must prove the fire was set intentionally...
Understaffed fire departments are usually too busy fighting fires to prevent them. But in response to the epidemic of arson, cities around the country are hiring more fire marshals. Largely under pressure from community leaders in Brooklyn, Mayor Abraham Beame recently authorized the New York City Fire Department to increase its force of investigators from 77 to 152-but that is still barely half the number of marshals experts believe New York needs to cope with its arson problem...
...reaction at home and abroad. Other Europeans understandably remain very apprehensive about the re-emergence of the "bad German." The Federal Republic, moreover, has only limited authority over most police matters. Reason: the country's postwar constitution deliberately created West Germany as a relatively loose federation of states, to prevent a recurrence of Hitler's oppressive centralization. West Germany's decentralization also hinders coordinating intelligence reports on suspected terrorists...
...increased security spending. "At the end when circumstances force us around the conference table-and no amount of guns can prevent that from happening-then we will wish we had the intelligence and foresight to do the right things when the opportunity was there. There is still time if we can take the initiative. And the majority of our people at this time are crying out for justice and bread, not guns...
...proposals would prevent students from waiving this right to access...