Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to prevent a repeat of last week's long meeting, Chairman Offutt gently chides the council, "This is question time, not discussion time...
...that was before the police started getting complaints from people who confused the NYPD cars with real SDPD vehicles. One citizen tried to flag down an NYPD car after seeing a burglary and was outraged when the pizza man kept right on going. To prevent such mix-ups, the state legislature is considering a bill that would bar vendors from using vehicles that look like police cars. To avoid a showdown, the Crottas have made some changes. The word pizza now appears in seven places on their cars, and the NYPD logo has been enlarged. But the confusion may just...
...ratings will never approach those of Dynasty. There will be no car crashes, no steamy love scenes, not even a laugh track. Normally, that would be more than enough to prevent a television production from getting on the air. But last week, 42 years after broadcast coverage was first proposed and seven years after the House took to the airwaves, the U.S. Senate voted 67 to 21 to begin gavel-to-gavel TV and radio coverage on an interim basis...
...financial condition has been devastated by falling oil revenues, rushed to Washington to seek aid in closed-door meetings with Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Secretary of State George Shultz and Treasury Secretary James Baker. Meanwhile, Peru suddenly withdrew its gold, silver and cash reserves from U.S. banks to prevent any effort by Washington to freeze them. When foreign ministers and finance chiefs from five major debtors--Brazil ($104 billion), Mexico ($97 billion), Argentina ($49 billion), Venezuela ($32 billion) and Peru ($14 billion)--gathered late in the week near the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este for an emergency...
While they may never be fast friends, Nicaragua and Costa Rica moved last week to ease the border tensions that threatened to destroy their already edgy relations. The two countries agreed to form a joint patrol of their 225-mile frontier to prevent clashes between Sandinista forces and U.S.-backed contras based in Costa Rica. The arrangement is designed to avoid incidents like the shooting deaths of two Costa Rican guardsmen last May, which resulted in abruptly severed diplomatic relations. Reason: San Jose blamed the violence on Sandinista troops, while Managua blamed the contras...