Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARMFUL nutritional effects of the sale of infant formula in Africa, Asia and Latin America where illiteracy, poverty and lack of sanitary conditions prevent its proper use, pose a serious question for the corporations which market this product: will they choose increased profits over the health of millions of babies...
Macy D. Koehlor, University biohazards safety officer, led the committee through the recently constructed lab, explaining the safety precautions taken to prevent the escape of potentially hazardous microorganisms from...
...hours, but forgot to double check and see if it was funny when they regained their normal states of consciousness. All the obvious jokes are there--people stumbling around, people eating huge amounts of food due to "munchies," stoned people in a car swallowing all their drugs to prevent the police from finding the evidence, innumerable puns on the word "shit"--and they are run by you time and again in a desperate attempt to get laughs. Yok yok. It turns out that making jokes about grass is much the same as smoking it--too much and you fall asleep...
Byrom despairs of the rigidities that prevent companies from allying to exploit technology and the economies of great size and cooperation. To remain competitive in the world, he says, U.S. steelmakers should be building modern plants with 10-million-ton capacity at deepwater ports. Since no one company can justify spending so much, the Government should allow several steelmakers to join in such projects. To stop the alarming erosion of America's capital base he contends, companies should be permitted to take their full depreciation allowances within one year-so long as they invest them all-instead of being...
...absorb their food are benefiting, though less conveniently from the feeding technique on which the vest is based: intravenous hyperalimentation. By using this technique, which involves pumping nutrients directly into the bloodstream, doctors are able to keep alive patients with shortened guts, inflamed bowels, and immunological defects that prevent proper digestion of food. It is also used for burn victims and people receiving drug or radiation treatment following cancer surgery. Without intravenous feeding many of these patients would die, not of their diseases, but because they were unable to eat or absorb enough food to sustain life; they would literally...