Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappointingly familiar insensitivity to the best interests of the University community. In a two-and-a-half year legal battle against the efforts of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America to hold an election among Med Area workers. Harvard and its lawyers have consistently sought to prevent over 1000 University clerical and technical employees from gaining the right to bargain effectively with their monolithic employer. And now, even after the National Labor Relations Board has upheld the union's right to go ahead in its organizing drive, Harvard continues to oppose the workers' desire to deal through...
...Mostafa Kamal Tolba, an Egyptian microbiologist who is executive director of the U.N.'s Environment Program, the 15-page document acknowledges that there are some environmental success stories -in efforts to cut down oil pollution of the seas, clean up rivers, safeguard certain species of wildlife and prevent the misuse of pesticides. But the report focuses on four areas in which man's activities are proving hazardous to the environment and to life itself...
...Supreme Court ruling, however, is likely to discourage civil rights activists from filing, or prevent them from winning, new antibias cases asking for retroactive seniority for large groups of workers going back to the date of original hire. It also casts a shadow over new seniority systems, benefiting minorities, that have been negotiated between companies and unions; when those contracts come up for renegotiation, white unionists may argue that there is no court compulsion to keep the new systems. Some lawyers predict that another effect of the ruling will be to prompt a flood of "reverse discrimination" suits by white...
...Other vets noted the growth of a more serious problem: heartworm-a mosquito-borne parasite that lodges in the heart, can reach a foot in length and blocks the oxygen supplied to the body. Eventually the dog tires after the slightest exertion. Several drugs are now available to prevent and treat this spreading canine disease...
...Even Artoo Detoo, with Baker inside, seemed out of control. Baker could scarcely see where he was going through Artoo's headlights, and he bumped into the unwieldy Threepio, sending him tumbling. Daniels could not see much better through Threepio's eyes, covered with real gold to prevent corrosion, but thereafter he kept a wide distance between himself and the Artoos-whatever was inside them...