Word: prevented
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Apart from its economic effects, the needlessly prolonged stoppage pointed up a critical need for legislation to prevent such situations. In his State of the Union address, President Johnson promised to draft tough new federal laws to "deal with strikes which threaten irreparable damage to the national interest." No such legislation has yet been proposed, and until it is, the Government can do little but muddle through crippling work stoppages in the transportation industry. The Administration's next exercise in ad-lib arbitration will most likely come when the militant railroad brotherhoods hold long-postponed negotiations with companies that...
...growing work. He may start by suspending a steel circle from the roof, or by resting a bar against a packing crate. Then, prowling through the work, he alters the angles like a tinker with a giant toy. He likes to work in a confined space to prevent stepping back, taking an overall look and possibly making cliche changes for symmetry's sake. Once the girders are joined together, Caro slaps on flat, emphatic coats of bright - paint whose loud colors are supposed to have a kind of subliminal impact, says he, "like a title." The results are scaleless...
Rendell believes the Soviets' aim was to limit or prevent China's development as a nuclear power. They intended to dominate in the joint control arrangements, and expected China to become militarily dependent upon them as a result...
...Stanford medics hastened to ex plain that they recognized that "as a result of President Eisenhower's heart attack, his devotion to golf and Dr. Paul Dudley White, we are now accumulating fairly substantial evidence that physical activity will prevent or retard certain types of cardiovascular disease." And "almost everyone agrees that graded exercise will enhance recovery from most traumatic and surgical conditions." What the two were arguing was that widespread and unquestioning acceptance of exercise has impeded the sort of research that would help give doctors the knowledge that they need to prescribe the right activity...
Marshall even finds fault with the rules of direct and cross examination, which prevent a witness from telling any more than lawyers want him to tell. Spontaneous narrative would be far more revealing and probably more accurate. As it stands, says Marshall, "testimony is constantly dissected and contradicted and reshaped toward partisan ends. That is the essence of a trial; it is not a scientific or philosophic quest for some absolute truth, but a bitter proceeding in which evidence is cut into small pieces, distorted, analyzed, challenged by the opposition, and reconstructed imperfectly in summation...