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Word: prevented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cards is designed to prevent such action in the future by making any restriction immediately noticeable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAA Institutes System In Attempt to Prevent Future Water Mishaps | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

What began as an attempt to freely elect a committee for the American group ended in a publicized demonstration of the Communists' method of insuring their idea of "peace". The anti-Communist participants sought to win the election as a matter of principle, and to prevent the small group of Communist Americans working with the Festival organizers from controling the the seminar tickets. Though the Communists never really did effectively control attendance at the seminars, their occasionally clever but mostly crude obstruction earned them an undemocratic brand at the Festival...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Vienna Festival Chants 'Peace, Friendship' | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

...such matters as the number of men needed for a particular task and the extent of management's authority to shift men around. Charging that the rules now foster "featherbedding and loafing," industry wants to add to Section 2-B a provision that "nothing in this contract shall prevent management from improving the operating efficiency of its plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Stand on Principle | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Congress may perhaps be sufficient explanation, but the voters evidently were not complacent last fall. The appearance maybe that a prosperous America prefers immoblisme to dynamism. Professor Schlesinger may argue that liberalism is cyclical in this country but it had better find a solid program if it wishes to prevent the dissipation of future victories in the manner of this year...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: 'The '86th' | 10/9/1959 | See Source »

None of the professors were optimistic about the chances of an early settlement. Chamberlin, although favoring use of the injunction at this time in order to prevent spreading of a situation which he described as "desperately serious now," expressed the fear that it "may just postpone everything for eighty days...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Three Professors Review Steel Strike | 10/8/1959 | See Source »

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