Word: preventative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to prevent the illegal use of computer software, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has instituted a plan to regulate the signing of software licenses...
...population in order to prevent AIDS from...
...disclosure of Heiskell's resignation from the Corporation comes less than two years after the departure of longtime member Hugh Calkins '45, a Cleveland tax lawyer. A high-ranking Harvard official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Heiskell's departure had been postponed to prevent two simultaneous vacancies on the Corporation. Rosovsky was chosen a year ago to replace Calkins...
...ones that divide countries, but the ones that divide people. Your hard-liners do not want international tensions to diminish. They do not want glasnost and freedom to develop in the U.S.S.R. because they need an unfree Soviet Union as a bogeyman to frighten their voters and to prevent more talented, democratic and tolerant people from gaining control of the country's destiny...
What makes the interactive toys tick? That is top-secret information these days. Manufacturers have shrouded their new toys in a haze of high-tech mystery, partly to preserve the sense of wonder about the devices, but also to prevent rivals from making knockoffs. While the technology is nothing that will tip the balance between superpowers, each toy company has developed a creative scheme for linking the toys with TV shows via light beams or audio signals...