Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curfew. At least eight curfew violators were shot dead for failing to heed orders to stop. Six soldiers and a civilian died in a fire fight in Tabriz after saboteurs attacked their patrol. Security was tightened around the offices and refineries of the giant National Iranian Oil Company to prevent sabotage, but so far there was no open challenge by radical elements to the government's get-tough action...
These allegations are clearly exaggerated. Stringent enforcement of security measures has kept fissionable materials safe-the country already handles such hazardous substances as explosives and deadly chemicals-without impinging upon personal freedoms. The U.S. decision not to sell uranium-enrichment and reprocessing technology abroad will do nothing to prevent weapons proliferation. Indeed, it will cost America its chance to control international traffic in nuclear materials. France and the Soviet Union are reprocessing nuclear fuels for shipment to other countries...
Castro added that an invasion of Cuba by the United States is precisely "what I have tried to prevent for all these years, in every possible sense...
...leaders at the fuel pumps. Kellogg's cereals are found on 40% of South Africa's breakfast tables, and Otis elevators convey riders in two of every five office buildings. IBM enjoys a near monopoly in data processing, challenged only by Control Data. Even though embargoes prevent U.S. companies from selling South African manufactured goods in almost all black African markets, most of the firms are thriving on domestic sales alone. Says Dick Strain, the local head of Eli Lilly: "South Africa has the sophistication of a Western market and the development potential of a Third World country...
...newsbreaks went, everyone might just as well have stayed at home. One reason for the Camp David meetings was President Carter's hope of liberating the participants from the constraints of their own past rhetoric. That meant keeping them away from the press too. To prevent either side from stealing the show, top aides accompanying Sadat and-Begin agreed to refrain from leaking to the press until the talks ended...