Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bellow said that the MDC and the CCC hired experts to determine how to prevent any damage to the trees. She added that the studies resulted in 32 "very strict specifications" which guarantee that the trees will not be injured...
...University admitted last week that it maintains two sets of undergraduate files--one of which is locked away in the Admissions Office--in order to prevent students from seeing some of their records. This practice, which violates the spirit and perhaps the letter of the federal law, should be stopped immediately...
...else's throat." Jan Slevin, a nurse, refused to work in the obstetrics unit of Washington General Hospital because of the many abortions performed there. "In a case of incest, rape or some psychological trauma," she concedes, "I can see a morning-after pill or a shot to prevent pregnancy. But I think abortion is morally evil. It is a taking of life...
...They expect output to grow, and unemployment and inflation to decline, through next year as well. Their worst worry is a long-range one: that some time around the end of 1977 basic industries will run into shortages of capacity that would cause inflationary bottlenecks and also prevent the unemployment rate from dropping below 6% of the U.S. labor force...
...intended to be objective, your method would prevent it, since it involves so many processes of editing and arranging. Clearly, you realize at least part of this problem. You said in The Egotists, "What 0you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape." There's even more difference between what you hear--a voice whose intonations tell you how to interpret what they say--and what the reader sees in print. And what about the process of selection? When, for example, Kissinger says in your interview (speaking...