Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to prevent the creation of a large and unahppy group of truly second class citizens, every possible attraction of the quad must be preserved...
...understand that a few individuals out there made us of some variety of rock encyclopedia, which we frown upon but cannot prevent. Whaddya think this is, West Point or something? Nevertheless, a good time was had by all, including Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsly, Lori Aronson and various other collaborators...
...just begun ordaining women as priests, added a new twist to that innovation last week. New York City's liberal Bishop Paul Moore ordained the Rev. Ellen Barrett, 30, the denomination's first openly committed homosexual priest of either sex. In an unusual last-minute plea to prevent the action, Colorado's Bishop William Frey had wired Colleague Moore: "Ordination of practicing homosexuals does not represent the mind of the church and is plainly contrary to the teachings of Scripture which we have all sworn to uphold...
...immunization is also a profitable business for a few drug companies.) Officials at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta were correct in assuming that this year, or next, or the one after a new strain of influenza would appear, but they were wrong in believing they could finally prevent a flu epidemic. The odds of predicting correctly what new strain will appear are small; when it arrives, in other words, the new strain probably will not be swine flu, but something entirely different...
...most frightening--polio, have been falling for several years. In 1964 78.6 per cent of all children aged one to four had been vaccinated against polio, but by 1975 that figure had fallen to 63 per cent; many experts cite 80 per cent as the minimum level needed to prevent outbreaks. In Boston, a 1975 study showed that levels were lowest in the poor, black areas of Roxbury and North Dorchester, where in two schools surveyed the immunization level had fallen to 15 per cent. In inner cities and rural slums throughout the country, a 1940s-style outbreak of polio...