Word: prevented
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...issue which divided Kerr and Reagan was the governor's plan to cut the university's budget by ten per cent in a general state-wide economy program designed to prevent a tax increase. The Governor and many of the people who elected him want to cut the university and state college appropriation. Yet they want to accommodate an additional 10,000 students--the products of California's population boom--and still maintain the quality of faculties and equipment...
...week. A literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount obviously necessitated a pacifist position. Writing against the Christians some time between 170 and 180, the Roman philosopher Celsus made the point that "if all men were to do the same as you, there would be nothing to prevent the king from being left in utter solitude and desertion, and the forces of empire would fall into the hands of the wildest and most lawless barbarians." But Christians ceased to be pacifist when the Emperor Constantine turned Christianity from a fringe sect into the Establishment. It now behooved the church...
Galbraith's statement appears in the lead article of a five-part discussion of the implications of Mrs. John F. Kennedy's recent suit to prevent publication of William Manchester's book. Mrs. Kennedy had commissioned the book, The Death of a President, as the authorized history of the assassination...
Hayes, silver medalist in the 200 meter butterfly at the 1960 Rome Olympics, said Wednesday that he had dressed only to prevent any changes in the Indian lineup...
...months, Lt. Col. Tokubu Gowon, head of Nigeria's military government, has been struggling to prevent tribal antagonisms from ripping apart his West African nation. Until two weeks ago, his efforts seemed futile. The leaders of Nigeria's four ethnic regions seemed unable to agree on a place to meet, much less on a way to keep the tottering federal government on its feet. Then, suddenly, Gowon and the four regional heads dropped everything and took off for Accra, Ghana. After two whirlwind days of secret negotiations at one of Kwama Nkrumah's old villas, the five men, gushing optimism...