Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long been a dream of population-control experts, to say nothing of millions of men and women all over the world: a safe antidote that can be taken after intercourse to prevent pregnancy. Such a perfect morning-after pill still eludes medical science. But Japanese researchers believe they have developed the next-best thing, a vaginal suppository. If administered as early as two weeks after a woman has missed her period because of pregnancy, it can induce abortion about 90% of the time with barely any side effects...
...that might create double-digit food inflation next year. He has criticized Congress-and indirectly even the White House-for appearing to cave in to the farmers' demands. Bosworth has also become an effective jaw-boner. Two weeks ago. he masterminded the Administration's successful effort to prevent the nation's steelmakers from following U.S. Steel in its attempt to raise prices far beyond what would have been justified by the settlement won by striking coal miners. His tactic-phoning U.S. Steel's competitors and persuading them to announce smaller increases-forced U.S. Steel to roll...
William L. Bruce, vice dean at the Law School, said he planned to bid on his oatmeal cookies to "prevent some poor student from being poisoned...
Winding up a three-day visit to Harvard. Napolitano stressed the importance of constructive reforms to solve Italy's complex problems. "The goals of socialist democracy remain our ideal," he said, "but we must first deal with the current crisis to prevent a political and social slide backwards...
Harvard medical School researchers this week completed the first phase of development of a vaccine that could potentially prevent the death or disability of 12,000 or more infants each year from Group B streptococcus infections, the major cause of meningitis in newborn babies...