Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post its copy of the book? Times Co. officials are astounded that anyone could have, considering the firm's extraordinary steps to prevent such leaks. The manuscript was set in type at Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., in Bloomsburg, Pa., under the eyes of uniformed security guards, on old-fashioned Linotype machines. Their output of hot metal was melted down as soon as it was used. The pages were bound at a Haddon plant in Scranton, also under guard; and finished books were sealed in tough plastic wrappers and then stored in locked trucks and warehouses...
Robert Williams, a black nationalist and former president of the Monroe Union county branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spoke on the importance of maintaining an historical perspective on racism, to prevent the recurrence of "past atrocities...
...deal of pressure to choose a career, but they don't always know where to go. There's pressure to be a doctor, a lawyer or an Indian chief. We want to help Radcliffe students look around and see the other option," Huffaker said, adding that the program should prevent students from entering a profession, "working for a week and discovering they can't stand...
...lead, Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin rapidly started shuffling new players into the lineup. Mark Hadley eagerly hit three short jump shots and Douglas McIntosh popped two jumpers, one from the ozone layer, to keep the pressure on the Judges. Meanwhile, Harrigan scored ten points of his own to prevent the Crimson from opening a wider...
First, racks of wafers are placed in long cylindrical ovens filled with extremely hot (about 2,000° F.) oxygen-containing gas or steam. In effect, the wafers are rusted-covered by a thin, electrically insulating layer of silicon dioxide that prevents short-circuiting. Then the wafers are coated with still another substance: the resist, a photographic-type emulsion sensitive only to ultraviolet (UV) light. (To prevent accidental exposure, clean rooms are generally bathed in UV-less yellow light.) Next, a tiny mask, scaled down photographically from a large drawing and imprinted with hundreds of identical patterns of one layer...