Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government has always had the means to prevent speculation, and the crash which inevitably results, Galbraith said, but has been unwilling to take the responsibility of precipitating this crash. "This is a matter of prevention, not control, for booms are not controllable, they are based on the hope of easy profit," he said. When the hope exists, there is a boom, he explained, and when it does not, there is no boom. The government cannot compromise on this matter...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has maintained all along that the rearmament vote need not prevent-in fact might even encourage-Russian attempts to negotiate with the West. Strength, he argued, is what the Russians respect. Last week everything pointed to Adenauer's essential rightness. At 79, and still carrying a burden that might cripple a man half his age, the indomitable old Chancellor had made his mark on history. Almost singlehanded, in the face of ruthlessly hard and skillfully soft Soviet pressure, in the face of French letdowns and Socialist opposition at home, he delivered to the West the long...
...broader implication arising from the Post Office restrictions are even more alarming. The fact that scores of Government translators daily censor or confiscate Russian publications does in itself sufficiently resemble Soviet thought-control practices. But worse that that, under the existing legislation there is apparently nothing to prevent the Post Office, with the Attorney General's permission, from widening the censorship list to include socialist literature or just unpatriotic propaganda originating abroad. Universities also are exposed to the whims of Washington bureaucrats, because at the present time it is only through the permission of the Post Office that these institutions...
...extra two hours a night would also create serious staff problems, since state law prevent girls from working in the library after 10 p.m. "It would be difficult to get male help for Lamont," McNiff continued, "Especially of the calibre of the staff we have...
State five laws would prevent opening only one level of the library, since there would not be the required number of exits...