Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late for Gorbachev to prevent his glossy image from becoming tarnished...
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...
...looks increasingly tempting to political scientists, economists, and regional specialists. While the CIA has pledged to loosen the strings on its grants, it is up to University Hall to establish firm controls on this kind of activity. President of the University Derek C. Bok has promised new guidelines to prevent a repeat of this fiasco, and one can only wish him Godspeed. But as Dean Spence's secretive and timorous handling of the Safran affair demonstrates, the University has been slow and inept at adapting to new funding problems to the current drain on research resources...
What should be done to prevent yet another San Diego or Los Angeles midair tragedy? Experts in all segments of aviation contend that the Federal Aviation Administration has moved much too slowly in developing airborne electronic devices, already used by some military jets, that could warn an airline pilot when he is dangerously close to another plane and flash directions for avoiding...
When Placid Oil filed for Chapter 11 protection two weeks ago, the company listed debts of $979.3 million against assets of $2.05 billion. The move was a last-resort effort to prevent the company's 23 lenders, including Houston's Texas Commerce Bank and RepublicBank of Dallas, from foreclosing on such Hunt assets as oil and gas leases and real estate. Thus the banks and the Hunts are now battling for control of the family's remaining wealth...