Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loss to the Italian taxpayers. But even more of a menace to Italy's economic health are such aggressive, purposeful enti as E.N.I., the burgeoning oil and gas corporation which, under the leadership of hard-driving Enrico Mattei (TIME, Nov. 29, 1954), has waged a determined fight to prevent private capital from sharing in Italy's oil development...
Student Council members last night discussed ways to prevent future failures in Combined Charities drives, and hesitantly decided that under Council control, the Phillips Brooks House Association could manage the solicitations with greater success. The executive committee will discuss the drive with Dean Leighton this week...
...these seminars the students are not graded, but instead they take a heavy battery of general examinations, both written and oral, in the spring of their senior year. These examinations are prepared not by the Swarthmore faculty but by outside examiners, who serve to prevent academic inbreeding. Students have high praise for the system, saying, "it means you're working with an instructor, not against him," because he neither writes not reads their examinations...
Hanson has discovered that many of the students who had course reduction regretted the lack of direction in the program. They would like some formal supervision for their work, to prevent neglect of their projects. Hanson, however, feels that this is purely a departmental problem...
...Trenches. "A theoretician may figure it out on a mathematical basis, but when we get down to the political realities here in the legislative trenches, where men must make a record on which to run for reelection, we cannot prevent an increase in domestic spending so long as we increase the foreign-aid program...