Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sentences for the nine-eight army officers and one air force captain-ranged from 2½ years to eight years in prison. The sentences were less than the prosecution had asked, a decision that seemed designed to prevent open hostility within the armed forces. The real target of the trial-though seven defendants denied membership in it-was a clandestine organization of politically progressive junior officers known as the Democratic Military Union (U.M.D.). Government fears about the group were apparent in the prosecutor's claim that the officers were plotting a Portuguese-style military rebellion...
...Texas cotton country, never flagged in his hostility to big banks, big money and high interest rates. Always a storm center, and often accused of dictatorial tactics, Patman helped win World War I veterans a $3 billion bonus in 1936; was coauthor of the Robinson-Patman Act, designed to prevent chain stores from driving small competitors out of business by temporarily slashing prices; pushed through the Employment Act of 1946, which made "maximum employment" a national objective and established the Council of Economic Advisers; and was a principal author of legislation creating federal credit unions and the Small Business Administration...
Charles W. Nordin, a fourth-year student at the Medical School, said yesterday that the faculty's "attempt to prevent random wanderings through the curriculum" is an "attempt to implement the traditional notion of education...
Addressing an advanced labor law class at the Law School, Jenkins said he blames a "lack of unified philosophy" in the administration of labor law for its estrangement from "what is wise, what is sound, and what will prevent continued disputes...
...Proposition #9: Only stricter traffic laws can prevent accidents," reads the blackboard of a fifth-floor classroom in Boylston Hall. The conservatively dressed professor of Arabic sits down at the table before the board, spiral notebook open before him, and begins the day's debate...