Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daughters-some 15 or 20 years after birth. Their sons are apparently not threatened by cancer, but there are indications that in some cases they may also be affected-by genital deformities or sterility. By 1971, when the federal Food and Drug Administration warned physicians against prescribing DES to prevent miscarriage, perhaps as many as 2 million women had taken the drug...
...made the scapegoat by a lot of people who draw lines on maps," Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens complained. "The people in the Brooklyn tenements and Florida condominiums look about them and see the devastation that development has caused in their area and they're determined to prevent the same thing from happening in ours...
Peck cited "political maneuvering" to prevent the University search committee from naming him as his reason for withdrawing...
...article it was charged that at the meeting at which the council's freshman class poll was being discussed, that Dean Arthurs tried to prevent any consideration of committee proposals to alter the council's structure. The council would like to state that neither at that meeting or at any other time during this year has Dean Arthurs tried to prevent any consideration of measures, proposals, or suggestions of the council. This is true in regards to ideas to alter the council's structure, CRR, or any Freshman Council sponsored events...
Ross said the current law allowing the UFW to unionize workers is not sufficient to prevent a reversal of recent union gains. Only boycotts and continuous political pressure will allow the UFW to continue to be effective, he said...