Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies physically in South Africa were to decide to withdraw universally, what would prevent them from being nationalized by the South African government...
Virtually the only criticism came from The Harvard Crimson, which blasted Conant's letter both for its substance and its tone. "That politics should prevent a Harvard student from research in one of the world's greatest cultural cities is most unfortunate and scarcely in line with the liberal tradition of which Harvard is pardonably proud," said The Crimson, adding that Hanfstaengl's "letter making the offer is couched in the friendliest of terms, in no sense meriting so curt and caustic a reply." The budding young Fascists of The Crimson may protest as they will," responded the New York...
Closer compatibility. With each NATO member equipping its own armed forces, the alliance contains a myriad of incompatible weapons systems. While nationalistic pride will probably continue to prevent full standardization, there have been gains in what NATO jargon terms interoperability. Two years ago, for example, few of the airbases in NATO countries could service any but their own warplanes. By next year, most bases will be able to accommodate all NATO aircraft. This is being achieved through extensive training of ground crews, stocking bases with a wide range of spare parts and ammunition and doing such deceptively simple things...
...reason to make unreasonable efforts to try to achieve this goal. No matter what new stimulatory measures are launched at this time, it would not be feasible to produce effective results before the end of the fiscal year [March 31,1979]. We will be working out measures to prevent a fall in exports, since this will have a big bearing on economic recovery here...
...Christmas. Seven Masses, traditionally sung by the Sängerknaben, have been canceled; so has the State Opera's year-end performance of Puccini's Tosca. The reason: a 30-year-old federal law forbidding children under 14 to work for pay. The law was designed to prevent mine operators and the like from exploiting youngsters. But the city fathers were forced to rule that it also applies to the choir, a 480-year-old institution that remains one of the sturdiest pillars of Vienna's musical reputation...