Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baker's return to competition after a two-week back injury should assure the Harvard team of an easy win over Princeton Saturday at Soldiers Field. But Tiger strength in the distances, the jumping events, and the javelin will prevent the Crimson, from coasting...
Plainly the President could not-and, as he made it clear last week, would not -permit a rail strike. The question was how to avoid it. As of last week, the Administration had exhausted the 60-day no-strike injunctions provided under the Railroad Labor Act. To prevent 137,000 workers in six shopcraft unions from tying up 138 railroads by taking a walk, Johnson had to request special legislation from Congress extending the strike deadline by 20 days. By margins of 81 to 1 in the Senate and 396 to 8 in the House, he got what he wanted...
...Great Lakes, only Lake Erie so far has become so badly polluted that beaches have been closed and commercial fishing has nosedived. To salvage Lake Erie, the U.S. Government has embarked on a $3.9 billion program of pollution control, expects eventually to spend $100 billion to prevent the nation's other waterways from becoming foul. Great Lakes states are already preparing proposals, to be presented to Interior Secretary Udall by July 1, aimed at halting any new pollution...
Better House co-operation would also prevent sloppy planning that now results in several shows opening on the same night and playing to meagre audiences...
...Conduit foundations, unlike so-called "dummy" organizations, do not receive all their money from the CIA, and therefore there is no proof that the agency's dollars actually went to the University. There were no strings attached to the aid, so the government could not directly influence research or prevent its results from being published...