Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, there are the laws that enforce the blindness, that keep whites from realizing how the blacks live. Besides the laws that prevent social interaction, and laws that prevent serious dissent from the government's apartheid policies, there are laws to keep South Africans from thinking. The censor's list is long and strict, and the newspapers have to tread carefully when they cover current events. Often the censors are fairly arbitrary, as in one famous case, when they banned Black Beauty (because of its title). While in Pretoria, I realize I have a banned novel in my suitcase, Alex...
...blind person across the street and another says hi to practically everyone on his beat. They take a sort of laissez-faire attitude toward student indiscretions within the privacy of their rooms, but outside in the street the police are constantly cruising, checking and rechecking to try to prevent that next crime. "The majority of the time it's just routine," Shannon says, "but other times the roof falls...
...does avoid recession, it will be a close call. Real gross national product?output of goods and services, discounted for inflation?is rising about 4% this year. The Administration's 1979 target is 3%, a rate that would keep inflation from getting worse but might not be enough to prevent unemployment from rising above its October level of 5.8% (down slightly from 6% in September). Privately, however, Administration officials indicate that they would accept a growth rate of 2%, which would certainly mean more unemployment, even though the U.S. would probably not technically be in a recession...
Justly irate feminists in Manchester picketed the Star's launch-night reception breakfast and altered some of the paper's promotional posters to read A STAR is PORN. Their protest did not prevent a sellout. Earlier, the Star had hurdled another obstacle: a demand by the Communist Morning Star for a court order barring the new paper from sowing confusion among the laboring classes by appropriating its stellar name. The judge lost no time denying the motion. Said he, quite accurately: "Only a moron in a hurry would be misled...
...casual, understated man with a slight New England accent, Belisle has spent the past nine years working for the Massachusetts Children's Protective Service, trying to prevent adults from beating, maiming and sometimes murdering children. He lives with the knowledge that such efforts are often unsuccessful. He also knows that reported incidents of child abuse in the state of Massachusetts have jumped from 122 in 1967 to 15,000 last year, an increase only partly due to a 1974 law redefining child abuse to include "neglect." "Nine years ago," he admits, "I thought I could go in and talk...