Word: preventative
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MORE important than watching your waist or looking ahead to spring break, there is a growing body of research that says a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet combined with daily exercise can help prevent heart disease. HUDS recognizes the importance of nutrition in its message, but many times its products fall far too short of its rhetoric...
This is not to say that transportation workers should not be allowed to strike. But even a little thing like a 30-day cooling-off period--which Bush stubbornly refused to grant--could prevent future strikes from deteriorating into mass chaos...
Similarly, the report says, there is no convincing evidence that calcium supplements help prevent osteoporosis, a crippling bone disease prevalent in older women. The calcium RDA is 800 mg; women now consume about three-quarters of that amount. They could make up the shortfall by drinking a 5-oz. glass of low-fat milk each...
Many Catholic academicians, pleased with the laissez-faire environment that has developed since the Second Vatican Council, are anxious to prevent any rollback. The Vatican, on the other hand, intends to issue a long-pending decree on higher education including specific provisions for removing dissidents. The whole issue could come to a head next month when some 170 Catholic leaders from around the world meet in Rome to discuss the final draft of the decree. Father Richard McBrien, chairman of the University of Notre Dame theology department, is confident that the document will cause no change in the status...
...Chapter 11 filing would not prevent such a takeover but would force approval by the bankruptcy court as well as creditors, making such a transaction cumbersome. Unions would also have...