Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least, seemed to take heart. New York Governor Hugh Carey, who had put pressure on Big Mac to take a tough stand with the city, called the mayor's program "an act of courage." Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson, a Republican who had led the fight to prevent additional state aid to the city, said that Beame "has made a 180-degree turn, which is exactly what had to be done." But it would have been better if Beame had made his turnabout earlier. In the time-honored fashion of New York politicians, he had put off dealing with...
...cooperated closely with the fascist regime. While an M.F.A. blacklist prohibits all wealthy businessmen from emigrating, many have managed to flee. Some literally walked across the border into Spain, while others sailed from Portugal's ports in their yachts -before the navy began patrolling the coast to prevent such escapes...
...known locally as "dash"-among military and government officials. As one Nigerian newspaper editor recently observed, "If original sin goes back to the Garden of Eden, then Adam must have been a Nigerian." Although Gowon is considered irreproachably honest, he was unable to control the widespread graft that helped prevent equitable distribution of the nation's oil wealth ($8 billion for 1974) to most of the 79 million Nigerians, who must still survive on an average per capita income of $120 a year...
They fear the controls necessary to prevent sabotage of the growing number of nuclear plants may make the country "a police state...
...here you have this enigmatic creature what might strike any beach bum at any time and no expert knows enough to prevent it. That's pretty exciting stuff for a commuter from Scarsdale or a teacher in Tucson Jaws is hitting it big because it adds a spark off danger, a touch of unpredictability into otherwise too-predictable lives. While other horror flicks transport you for a trembling evening or maybe a law sleepless nights afterwards. Jaws widens the possibilities for the rest of your beach-going existence. That could really be something to celebrate...