Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggested that networks, through a combination of legal threats and investments, might try to pressure makers to drop the skip buttons. But analysts predict that as competition increases (Microsoft's WebTV satellite service will offer PVR-like features later in the fall), nothing short of an outright ban will prevent someone from offering such an option...
...Prevention of Danger law was rescinded because military leaders likely realized that wielding the big stick could provoke rather than prevent danger in the diverse and often fractious 13,000-island archipelago. "Secessionist rumblings are stretching the army pretty thin, and they may have come to the view that claiming martial law powers at this point was a mistake," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Cracking down too hard right now may actually trigger more secessionist activity, and the Indonesian military has a very sophisticated approach to dealing with these things. It?s also not a monolith ? it's generals...
...calling for greater controls. But at this point IMF aid to Russia isn?t even passing through Russian hands ?- it?s simply being transferred from one IMF account to another, because the international body is giving Russia only enough to service its debt to the IMF in order to prevent a default that could destabilize global financial markets...
...percent across-the-board increase in Pentagon spending, Senate Republicans have pushed through a broad reorganization of the Department of Energy that will largely separate the nation?s nuclear labs from the rest of the department. The Republicans say the measures will streamline administration, increase accountability and prevent the kind of embarrassing security snafus that made Wen Ho Lee a household name...
...effort to prevent cockroaches from taking over a room during the school year, Kreimeyer suggests students pay special attention to keeping their rooms clean, leaving no dirty dishes out and rinsing out bottles before they get thrown into the recycling...