Word: prevent
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...crux of I Get No is the collapse of time. When an Elvis-impersonator bursts upon the founding fathers, we see the most realistic instance of time-space confuscation. "Elvis" escorts a dorky librarian to the future, where his mission is to prevent a militaristic presidential candidate from winning and fulfilling his alliance with a disco-dancing tele-evangelist by outlawing rock'n roll. They do so by transforming a stuttering barber-woman into the Cinderella candidate destined for victory. What follows is a synchronic allegory of post-revolutionary American history only thinly disguised as an innovative commentary on gender...
With only four games to go in regular season play, Harvard cannot afford to be swept this weekend. Coming away with a few points may be all Harvard needs to prevent another trek back up to the North Country...
SEXILE, A PRACTICE UNIQUE TO THE college-age set, is the natural result of out-of-control hormones unleashed in N-1 bedrooms. Strategies to prevent the interruption of an intimate moment include blocking the door with a bed, recreating hotel atmosphere with "Do not disturb" signs and draping key articles of clothing across the bedroom door...
...member of the panel that voted for the measure in 1996, Dershowitz stressed the need for specific rules governing matters of harassment, as opposed to the mostly unwritten guidelines by which they were previously judged. He asserted that such safeguards would actually prevent individuals from being accused on groundless claims...
...most pressing practical concern of the bill is its inherent inability to prevent the executions of wrongly convicted inmates. Recently, Anthony Porter, an inmate on death row in Illinois, was freed merely two days before execution after a group of journalism students sought out and found the real killer. According to the Associated Press, Cellucci said the fact that Porter wasn't executed was proof the system works. The governor doesn't seem to realize that this kind of argument--that because private citizens took action to save a death row inmate, the death penalty system works--is completely absurd...