Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found that there are a series of administrative barriers which prevent state and local administrators from helping people," said Brown, who heads the group...
...past five years as head of Khad, the dread Afghan secret police. Although the transition was managed peacefully--the previous three Afghan leaders had been killed during transfers of power --Soviet tanks took up positions in the hills outside Kabul, and armored units patrolled the city to prevent a violent backlash from Karmal loyalists. The leadership change seems to have been timed to highlight a major Soviet military offensive in the eastern part of the country and coincide with the opening of the seventh and last round of the Afghan-Pakistani peace talks in Geneva...
...margins of 73 to 22 in the Senate and 356 to 62 in the House were considerably wider than the two-thirds majority necessary to override a presidential veto. Nonetheless, Reagan immediately vowed that he would not only veto the congressional action but would also twist enough arms to prevent an override and permit the sale to go through...
...Darman said, "There will be additional shots at the bear, but the bear will continue to move in the right direction." The most potent argument against too much tampering is the desire to keep the top tax rate at 27%. Some supporters hope to reach an agreement that will prevent any Senator from offering loophole-opening amendments without specifying how to make up for any revenues that might be lost. If a budget has been passed by then, such trade- offs would be mandatory under the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction...
...criticisms of Russian standards and equipment, America has its own graphite-cooled reactor without a containment shell--it's in Hanford, Washington. American safety systems didn't prevent TMI from becoming a catastrophe like Chernobyl--we were just lucky...