Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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India's refusal to accept U.S.-dictated safeguards on nuclear materials to prevent their being used in the production of weapons contrasted with Iran's attitude. In Tehran the week before, the Shah agreed to accept such controls, and Carter in turn approved Iran's request to buy up to eight American nuclear reactors. If the sale did not seem to square with Carter's nonproliferation policy, the White House could argue that, to the contrary, it gave the U.S. new leverage in applying safeguards...
...their personal backgrounds, business history and sources of financing. Then they must go through investigations lasting six to nine months. Only one application, from Resorts International, has been received thus far. The commission is also drawing up stringent regulations for casino operations, including an accounting system designed to prevent anyone from skimming off profits to evade taxes...
...years of foreign stewardship-by the U.S., Japan, Germany and Spain-have left their ecological mark. Giant African snails brought in by the Japanese as wartime survival food now ooze all over the island. America's legacy is tangantangan, a spindly ground cover planted after the war to prevent erosion. Saipan's soil was saved, but, alas, it seldom is visible since the tangantangan has voraciously rooted throughout the island...
...closest friend. By placing him as God in the center of a movie, Reiner may feel he is paying the ultimate tribute to this cigar-smoking, endearing little man. Too bad Reiner's religious offering did not include a good script. Great pains have obviously been taken to prevent the placid Burns from being upstaged; Reiner has chosen to cast him opposite John Denver, an innocuous, highly-forgettable country-western singer, and a company of lovable codgers from Barnard Hughes to Ralph Bellamy. Denver's wife, who must put up with his "visions," is played, badly, by Teri Garr...
Unless steps are immediately taken to stimulate economies, warns the OECD, the job picture in 1978 will get even worse. The organization sees growth of perhaps as little as 2.5% for Western Europe. That would mark a slight increase from 1977, but riot enough to prevent a further rise in unemployment, which the OECD says could go as high...