Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claim that the U.S. is the persecutor of dissidents. It awarded the Lenin Peace Prize to Communist Angela Davis, a onetime activist who now lectures at San Francisco State University on ethnic and women's studies. Davis, told reporters that publicity about Soviet dissidents was "a smokescreen to prevent Americans from understanding oppression at home...
...toughness. If nothing else, she will have to deal with several influential senior Tories who are determined to moderate her more radical views. "What will stop her behaving in a grandiose manner on the world stage is our economic situation," says one of them. But that is unlikely to prevent her from lecturing her counterparts in Western Europe. ("God help them," says one colleague.) Another potential Cabinet member sums her up: "She is a powerful lady, but manageable by her colleagues. They believe they can keep her from lurching too far right...
...seems to say, so he'll do nothing at all. He'll take Engelhard's money and name the damned library after him--then the deed will be done and everybody will have to look to the future. And if critics ask to examine all future gifts to prevent further Engelhards, Bok answers that an overall policy is too hard to work out, and a case-by-case method is inconsistent and arbitrary...
...state university's 20,500 black students are enrolled. To pay for the improvements, the Governor agreed to pass up a planned $40 million tax cut. But the effort failed. The university concluded that HEW'S demands were "rigid" and last week sued to prevent the department from cutting off at least $20 million in federal...
...chiefs contend that they are merely embellishing the rules of the game as taught by the oil majors. From the moment that John D. Rockefeller organized the infant U.S. petroleum industry into a producers' cartel to maintain stable and profitable prices, companies have employed one device after another to prevent price-disrupting swings between glut and shortage...