Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conducting the poll to see if the University can prevent course over-crowding that results from more students registering for a course than the University expects...
...meeting was conceived in 1975 as an expression of the U.N.-declared International Women's Year. Congress provided $5 million in funding. A total of 56 state and territorial meetings elected delegates for Houston and drew up a "National Plan of Action" that would "identify the barriers that prevent women from participating fully and equally in all aspects of national life"-and recommend ways to remove them...
...Iran had massed to protest his first state visit to the U.S. in 2½ years. Most of the demonstrators were Iranians studying in the U.S., including some who paid their own way to Washington and some who were assisted by student organizations. Wearing cardboard or muslin masks-to prevent Iranian secret police from photographing them, they said-the protesters bore slogans reading, SHAH: FASCIST MURDERER; SHAH IS A U.S. PUPPET; and CIA OUT OF IRAN...
...world, had to be directed at stopping the characteristic sickling, or distortion, of the red blood cells that occurs after they unload their cargo of oxygen. But how? During cocktail-party chatter, Lab Director Cerami learned from a colleague that a byproduct of urea-a chemical called cyanate-can prevent sickling. Tests on both animals and humans confirmed this, but the cyanate also had toxic side effects on the nervous system. So the Rockefeller scientists suggested adding the cyanate directly to the blood. That idea has led to the experimental development elsewhere of machines, somewhat like artificial kidney units, which...
...price ceiling of $1.47 per 1,000 cu.ft. Carter wants all the country's natural gas to come under price controls, but he would raise the ceiling to $1.75 per 1,000 cu.ft. The idea is to give producers more incentive to explore for natural gas, but to prevent them from raising prices to exorbitant levels. The House went along with this proposal; but the Senate, after a bitter, failed filibuster by members from gas-consuming states, voted to remove regulations from all natural gas. The conference committee has yet to get to this issue, but since Carter...