Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci told Harvard officials Tuesday he would propose an ordinance to prevent the University from removing property from the city tax rolls without City Council approval unless Harvard agreed voluntarily to such a plan...
...rent control law needs to prevent owners of large buildings from gouging their tenants," she said...
...does not seek to force Catholics, fundamentalists or any other pro-lifers to have abortions they don't want. Yet when a court suit seeks to prevent them from legislating their way down all our throats and using our tax system as a means to force women to bear children they don't want, they call it a threat to civil rights...
...been commenting on what Schlesinger had said, but on the Iranian situation itself.) Blumenthal forcefully reiterated that the Administration remains committed to maintaining stable market conditions for the dollar. Currency traders took this as a sign that the U.S. was prepared to intervene massively in the money markets to prevent a dollar rout, and the slide stopped, though the greenback still closed out the week lower than it began it. In fact, the Schlesinger-Blumenthal performance accomplished little except to underscore the trouble that the Administration is having in saying or doing anything effective to deal with the Iranian...
...assembly found that it was powerless to reverse the Kirkland House decision. Moreover, the assembly could not prevent minor election bungling in other houses--misprinted ballots in Lowell and Quincy Houses and a volunteer who forgot to put out the ballot box on the second day of voting in North House...