Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executive board of UNESCO voted Wednesday to recommend to the next general conference of the organization that procedures be adopted to prevent Arab nations from excluding Israel from a regional group...
...Bayh led the opposition to the Haynesworth and Carswell Supreme Court nominations. He parlayed an obscure sub-committee chairmanship, that of the Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, into landmark legislation and Six O'Clock News Slots. Bayh's presidential succession amendment of 1967, designed to prevent vacancies in the office of Vice President, instead precipitated the Nixon/Ford/Rockefeller brand of participatory democracy. Bayh also claims credit for steering the 18-year-old vote to passage, as well as the Equal Rights Amendment. And this summer he helped block once again the Buckley anti-abortion amendment...
...suit also asks for an injunction to prevent further violations of the constitutional rights of the pro-busing groups...
...would be a plan to give Rank shareholders equal voting rights. Long before his death in 1972, Company Founder J. Arthur Rank set up an involved scheme under which the Rank Foundation, though it holds only 9.44% of the stock, casts 53% of the votes. His intention was to prevent a takeover...
...week's delay threw a shroud over even that promise, and any major sealift probably will have to wait until next year. If nothing else, the professional meteorologists used by the oil companies might learn a lesson from the Eskimos. Last summer they reportedly predicted that ice would prevent passage to Prudhoe...