Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LABOR. Ford has already committed himself to approve Labor Secretary John Dunlop's controversial "common situs" picketing bill, which would sharply increase the power of individual construction locals. Under the present law, a striking plumbers' local, say, cannot form a picket line to prevent carpenters or electricians or members of any other construction union from working on the same job. Dunlop's bill would permit such picketing...
...freewheeling days of J. Edgar Hoover are over. Now Congress and the Executive branch must find ways to limit the FBI's activities and prevent future abuses of its vast powers. Last week several experts gave their recommendations to Democrat Frank Church's Senate Intelligence Committee. The proposals fell into four categories...
Harvard students must join in the fight against racism in order to help prevent further outbreaks of anti-busing violence, a black leader from Roxbury said yesterday...
...been the rallying cry of racist South Africa. South African forces fighting alongside FNLA/UNITA have penetrated 200 miles into Angolan territory. And these forces aim to protect South African investments in Angola, and to eliminate black Namibian revolutionaries operating from Angolan bases. But more importantly, South Africa seeks to prevent the formation of a ring of hostile black states on her borders. Western support for FNLA/UNITA thus contributes directly to the preservation of apartheid in South Africa, a system from which many American firms profit...
...Yorkers' blades boasted some double trouble for the Crimson in the likes of Swedish Olympians Hans and Lars Wieselgren. The fraternal fencers foiled Harvard in the epee, with only the Crimson's Simmons breaking through to prevent a sweep...