Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the President's offer, disclosed by sources after he made it in a letter last July, was his first formal offer to negotiate on Star Wars, it would not prevent unilateral deployment of a defensive system...
...University--which drew attention to the big Stadium gala and the officially licensed 350th product line--took steps to try to prevent the big blow-out from looking like Statue of Liberty II. One-hundred-and-six academic symposia were scheduled and cast with an array of stars from within and without the lvory Tower. Yet, on the whole, the symposia did not place much of anything, including Harvard itself, under any serious scrutiny...
Speaking at a Kennedy School of Government symposium, Sheik Ahmed Z. Yamani urged all oil-producing nations to prevent fluctuations in world oil prices by establishing a collective price structure based on the long-term equilibrium between supply and demand...
...lack of focus in her government. I think that was in the beginning. Remember, we had no transition period. In fact, it was a question of trying to prevent the previous officeholders from doing any more damage. In your country you have at least 2 1/2 months to get ready for a turnover, and everybody cooperates. We had none of that. Given all the problems we inherited, I think we should be appreciated for being able to do all that we have done. People forget so easily. They think that getting rid of Marcos was something that came naturally...
Daniloff's release from Lefortovo seemed to prevent, at least for the moment, further escalation of a crisis that had threatened to reverse the modest gains in U.S.-Soviet relations painfully wrought over the past year or so. There still remains a possibility that Washington will send some signals of displeasure to the Kremlin. For example, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman, now in Washington for consultations, could be kept home for an extended stay. But the air is now clearer, and when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visits Washington for talks with Shultz Friday and Saturday, they may find it possible...