Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Future was fitting: his image of the future, a peaceful era of happy families in tight communities, harks back to his vision of an idealized past. For the President, future indicative is past perfect. There were, however, few forward-looking initiatives in his address, in part because budget restraints prevent anything that amounts to more than walking-around money...
...died fighting apartheid in South Africa and slavery in America. The 10th grave stands for the people yet to die in the struggle, said N. Andrew Cohen, general manager of the Brown Daily Herald. The pro-divestment activists are keeping a round-the-clock watch over the graves to prevent vandalism similar to that which occurred at Dartmouth and Stanford...
...icemen are also looking to prevent a repeat of the shenanigans that marred the first Cornell-Harvard game. After the Red had fallen hopelessly behind, one of its captains, defenseman Mike Schafer, fired a puck at Crimson Coach Bill Cleary as he stood behind the Harvard bench...
...also said defense contractors should be required to use production methods that permit quick transitions to non-military production, to prevent defense cuts from causing the widespread layoffs that he said make them unpopular in Congress...
...consoles until telemetry from Challenger abruptly stopped, the stored data could contain the clue that the space agency is seeking. Though NASA experts repeatedly objected to all public guessing about what caused the explosion --all employees of the agency were ordered not to speculate--it was virtually impossible to prevent people from doing just that. But the space agency promptly took issue with some of the early theories...