Word: prevent
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...final ?Power Index? ahead of decision day. ?Rio has been able to deliver an emotional edge to its appeal that other bids haven?t matched,? says Around the Rings editor Ed Hula. Perhaps the President can up the ante. After insisting that health care business would prevent him from trekking to Copenhagen to personally lobby the IOC, on Monday White House officials announced that Obama, a de facto Chicago native, had changed his mind. Fellow Windy City superstars, his wife and Oprah, will join...
...health officials fear that adverse reactions in vaccine recipients can make the already difficult job of convincing healthy people to receive inoculations even more challenging. For whatever reason, people tend to fear vaccines more than other medicines. This has been the case since the first vaccinations were given to prevent a spread of smallpox in England in the late 18th century. That vaccine used bovine ingredients (the word vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow, vacca) and people feared the injections would turn them into cows. (See the top 5 swine...
...demanded that Iran abide by U.N. Security Council resolutions ordering it to suspend enrichment until all transparency concerns raised by the IAEA are resolved. Although Iran continues to defy those resolutions and refuses to renounce its right to enrichment, it appears willing to negotiate over strengthening safeguards to prevent the use of its nuclear facilities for a weapons program...
...problem with the FDIC's solution is it does nothing to keep its fund officially out of the red. That's because the same accounting that allows banks to hide the costs will prevent the FDIC from marking up its own assets. Just as the banks get to add an asset to their balance sheet for the money they are prepaying, the FDIC has to book a liability for the money that it has received from the banks but is not actually entitled to yet. That liability will lower the balance of the FDIC's fund by the same amount...
...Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens,” Athenians viewed indulgence and tyranny as inextricably intertwined. Pleasure-seeking and power-seeking were often one and the same—if a man could not control his appetite for fish and sex, what would prevent him from taking over the acropolis...