Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same is true of advertising. If protest is mounted, advertisers will recognize that it is not good business to portray women in a degrading fashion. With a little luck, they may start to develop attitudes that would prevent them from doing so in the first place...
Then, on the eve of the doomed launch, 15 Morton-Thiokol engineers agreed--unanimously--that NASA shouldn't launch the Challenger. They were fearful that overnight sub-freezing temperatures at the Kennedy Space Center would prevent the O-rings from functioning properly. (Morton-Thiokol had never bothered to test the rings' performance at such low temperatures...
What lies behind the decade-and-a-half of no-arrest policy is the violent clash of police and student protesters occupying University Hall in 1969. That image haunts the administration--and reminds us of the responsibility of the community and the administration to prevent dissent from becoming violence...
...coal mine: "The proposed cut is the same as a death sentence." To protest the plan, workers at Japan's eleven major mines mounted a 24-hour strike on Nov. 13. Some 7,000 supporters marched with union flags and placards in subfreezing weather. Still, their action did not prevent last week's closure of the Takashima coal mine, the country's oldest...
There will be future covert actions, and some are sure to go wrong. No amount of structural tinkering will prevent that. A world of Ayatullahs and Sandinistas is a world that will often demand clandestine deals. The particular deal now unraveling was cockeyed to begin with and probably illegal. Nevertheless, we may have to deal secretly again. If we are going to play the great power game, and ask others to risk their lives to help us win it, we had best accept the need for sordid secrecy. Or give up the game altogether...