Word: prevent
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...been overwhelmingly negative. The Cornwall tourist board trumpeted slogans like "come early, stay long, leave late," British Rail added 21 extra trains during the week and last November the Cornish Local Medical Committee urged prospective parents to avoid conceiving, in the expectation that gridlock caused by the eclipse would prevent them from reaching maternity units...
...people turned out for the rally, the largest in Berkeley since the Vietnam War, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Political cross-pollination was the rule. Tables set up around the perimeter advertised the Sierra Club, the Peace and Freedom Party, the Police Review Commission and even the Rally to Prevent Y2K Catastrophe...
...high after the Kashmir crisis it?s disturbing that Indian jets would shoot down a propeller-driven Pakistani plane rather than force it out of their air space. Such an action looks calculated to increase tension rather than reduce it." Although Pakistan and India have developed extensive mechanisms to prevent their constant low-level clashes spiraling into war, the latest confrontation only widens the danger. Despite Pakistan?s withdrawal from the Indian side of Kashmir last month, there has been an intensification of fighting there in recent weeks between the Indian army and Pakistan-backed Kashmiri separatists. That?s been...
...fingerprint-enabled handgun, being developed by Oxford Micro Devices, will use a miniature electronic fingerprint-capture-and- verification device built into the handle of a gun to identify the owner and prevent unauthorized users...
...providers) is trying to gain access to the 40 million folks using AOL's free IM software--and is occasionally succeeding. AOL, claiming concern for users' password protection, is trying to block its rivals' advances. Net result: a cat-and-mouse game of code change and counterchange that could prevent the adoption of standards and stunt this medium for years to come...