Word: preventative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kreimeyer says the University as a whole has been proactive in working to prevent infestation problems, sighting efforts to chemically treat basements, mechanical rooms and crawl spaces as a way to keep the cockroach population from burgeoning...
...apparent culprit. According to a lengthy list of snafus detailed in the official probe, the Marines accuse Bell of allowing the helicopter to take off even though the Pentagon had ordered it grounded because of five urgent safety problems. Two of the five requested fixes were designed to prevent a loss of engine power, which investigators for the families believe caused the crash. The report concluded that the Cobra should never have taken off until these and other repairs had been made. Bell has shed little light on the tragedy. After conferring with Bell lawyers, eight of the nine employees...
...discounted charges of anti-Semitism. He produces two letters, the more disturbing of which purportedly offers Pius' description of a revolutionary in 1919: "a Jew. Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, hoarse voice, vulgar, repulsive, with a face that is both intelligent and sly." The "secret antipathy," writes Cornwell, helped prevent Pius from finding "in the isolation of the Jews a parallel with Christ alone on Golgotha" and thus helped prevent him from finding a voice to defend them...
...hand, being affiliated with an institution that is reputedly elitist, exclusive, ultra-liberal and an integral part of the Eastern establishment could prevent a candidate from ingratiating himself with the masses...
...house of hope and love," Gov. George W. Bush said in a statement from Detroit. "My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and the congregation." Not a mention of guns, but then neither he nor his constituents think gun control has any particular ability to prevent this brand of tragedy, and they may be right ? even if the irony of the incident does not escape Al Gore in the months ahead. What could have stopped the anti-Baptist? Police took several hours to take a look at his body, fearing that the corpse was booby-trapped...