Word: prevent
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...chaos in a comic spirit. Perhaps they have no choice; a purge of the Italian government a la Watergate would leave the country without a single official or institution. Except for the very rich, no one can continue to ignore an inflation rate of 30 per cent, prices that prevent some 10 per cent of the population from eating meat, or an unemployment rate that does not allow eight per cent of the labor force to earn a living. The ordinary citizen seems to have two alternatives: satirical laughter, or despair...
...Earl Stevens, editor of the National CB Truckers' News (circ. 250,000), last week accused First Mama of rustling votes over the Citizen's Band airwaves-a violation, says he, of federal regulations. Fearful that campaigners might clog the air, Stevens has called on the FCC to prevent politicians from rendering "our CB radios useless in election years." Ten-four, First Mama...
Whatever form they take, and there are several, gag orders ban reporters from printing information they have discovered themselves, or that is publicly available-and occasionally even prevent reporting the fact of the gag itself. Explaining the need for the Simants action last week, Harold Mosher, Nebraska's assistant attorney general, argued that "temporary restraints on First Amendment freedoms are permitted in extraordinary circumstances where no other means exist to protect other fundamental interests." The basic right of a defendant to keep inadmissible evidence from a jury during a trial is clearly infringed if the press has presented such...
...danger of distorted testimony is not significantly greater than in cases in which a witness is paid a straight fee for his presumably favorable expertise. As for the remarkable idea of selling shares in the ultimate damages, if any, the judge said that the law did not appear to prevent Person's plaintiffs from selling such shares, so long as investors had no say in how the case was fought legally...
...picks up, the prospects are grim. The average electronic watch requires only half as much labor as a mechanical watch, and present watchmaking skills, maintained through generations, are sometimes not transferable. Only time can tell whether or not the Swiss industry's belated push to go electronic can prevent the disappearance of a way of life...