Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the system malfunctions, a thoughtful individual, Geltz shows, can put it back on the right track. And that's what's so threatening to the Navy: that an individual can make a more prudent decision than the entire chain of command and can prevent the military and State Department from getting away with whatever they choose...
...length of time without charges, the DGSE is intimidating, although it is less repressive than the security apparatus in some other Latin American countries. "It is the primary instrument utilized to consolidate the revolution," says a Western diplomat. "Its objective is to identify and neutralize counterrevolutionaries and prevent and neutralize the development of an internal front...
...laughed and nudged Andrew's arm somewhat sheepishly. Ferguson's official title will be Her Royal Highness the Princess Andrew. "A great honor," she allowed. "Much looking forward to carrying it out or whatever I'm supposed to do." But she is hoping that her official duties will not prevent her from also carrying on with her career working in a London graphic-arts office. She would be the first royal wife to be a wage earner...
Certainly, there is no way to prevent a percentage of the student body from spending three years in nefarious Radcliffe Quadrangle, upon which students heap even more abuse than on the Kool-Aid art that not so long ago gave it a sticky winter coat of many colors. But there are alternatives to both the current lottery system and to completely "random" solutions...
That reception did not prevent Javits from plunging ahead. During a typical session, he would serve on as many as five committees and nine subcommittees. Because of his minority-party status, his name was never attached to major legislation. However, he played a key role through the years on bills concerning civil rights, labor, business and the role of Congress, including the War Powers Act of 1973, which restricts the presidential conduct of hostilities. He was especially proud of a measure aimed at protecting the fiscal integrity of private pension funds, which passed in 1974 after he had pushed...