Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diphtheria, tuberculosis, dysentery. Any Indian born today on a reservation has a life expectancy of only 36 years against a neighboring white child's 61. Half the deaths (and nearly all the premature deaths) among Indians are from diseases that the white man's medicines can prevent or cure...
...they come from. The new operation spells hope for thousands afflicted with such common bladder ailments as cancer or chronic ulcers. "It's by no means a panacea for everybody with bladder trouble," says Dr. Bohne. "But the new procedure will replace the reservoir and will, we believe, prevent the kidneys from becoming infected, a result that frequently caused untimely deaths after the older method of radical surgery and the insertion of permanent catheters [artificial drainage tubes] into the kidneys. And if, for example, we can eradicate a cancer that is causing trouble, we're giving the patient...
...read in the 14th Amendment . . . any words or intendment which prohibit the state from enacting legislation to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens . . . so that it shall not have a mongrel breed of citizens. We find there is no requirement that the state shall not legislate to prevent the obliteration of racial pride, but must permit the corruption of blood, even though it weaken or destroy the quality of its citizenship. Both sacred and secular history teach that nations have better advanced in human progress when they cultivated their own . . . peculiar genius." Justice Buchanan concluded: "Regulation of the marriage...
Working in makeshift tents or native huts from dawn to dusk-and often later by the headlights of the expedition's only truck-the doctors performed 3,700 operations in an effort to prevent blindness, gave injections and pills to the other thousands who showed symptoms of the disease...
...high tide of the nation's business boom, Presidential Economic Adviser Arthur Burns last week judged that it was time to sound a note of warning. Though the U.S. is in glowing financial health, he told a conference of economists at Pennsylvania State University, "it is important to prevent the confidence that generates prosperity from passing into the overconfidence that generates speculative booms...