Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital gains will be taxed as ordinary income has already aroused stiff opposition among businessmen. Scenting an issue, House Minority Leader John Rhodes thundered: "Poor economic policies have created a bad case of the jitters among the American people." Rhodes called for an across-the-board tax cut to prevent another recession. Al Ullman, Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, made the same plea. For most members of Congress as well as the public, tax reform means a tax cut-period. That is not what it means to Carter...
...overlapping, federal, state and local environmental regulations are the current headache. They are well intentioned and may indeed prevent ecological damage, but they promote inflation. Fairfax County, Va., stopped all building for 18 months while officials drew up a master plan for development; when the moratorium was lifted, pent-up demand sent land prices soaring...
...Thus the most practical response now to malaria's new challenge, says Dr. Robert Kaiser, of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, is a return to the pre-DDT approaches: draining mosquito-breeding areas and monitoring water supplies. In addition, several drugs can be used both to prevent and to treat human malarial infections. Says Kaiser: "We are going back to the basic malariology abandoned in the 1950s with the advent of the broad-brush chemical approach." The great hope, he says, is for an antimalarial vaccine. But that, he concedes, is at least a decade away...
...help prevent such shenanigans, syndicates are quiet as clams about their methods and finances. Since most major syndicates are either privately held or are subsidiaries of large newspaper chains, profits and revenues are almost never disclosed. Thus there is no way of knowing for sure which syndicate is largest, though most insiders would probably not dispute this rough ranking: 1) King Features (Blondie, Beetle Bailey, "Hints from Heloise"); 2) Field Newspaper Syndicate (Dennis the Menace, "Herblock," "Ann Landers"); 3) United Feature (Jack Anderson, Peanuts); 4) NEA (Alley Oop, Bugs Bunny); 5) Chicago Tribune-New York News (Dick Tracy...
Some Western analysts believe that Wang's next assignment will be to prevent the reoccurrence of the widespread strikes, riots and armed rebellions that have plagued the country since it be came clear that Hua was winning the leadership struggle. To accomplish this he can call on at least a half-million security troops under his command. He apparently also supervises several secrecy-shrouded police organizations; these include the dreaded Ministry of Public Security, which maintains Peking's totalitarian rule, partly through the aid of a vast system of forced-labor camps, where millions are imprisoned...