Word: prevented
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...strict Government safety regulations for trucks as well as cars, Hoffa said: "If you leave it to somebody's discretion to pass minimum safety standards, there wouldn't be any standards." He also showed a film plugging a fifth-wheel device for trucks, which he said would prevent many jackknifing accidents...
...Metropolitan District Commission yesterday installed three large light-posts along the Charles River bank across from Leverett and Winthrop Houses to prevent muggings in the Weeks Bridge area...
Fraternity members and alumni of Amherst are fighting back, hoping to prevent their school from following the lead of Williams College, which has been gradually abolishing its 15 national fraternities; only two are left. Williams President John Edward Sawyer was bitterly condemned by some alumni for the change, but Assistant Dean Donald W. Gardner insists that the changes "made this campus come alive...
...Prosecutor Clark is determined to do what he can to prevent so drastic a change in U.S. justice. Under a 1964 law, indigent federal prisoners may now be represented by paid public defenders, and last year Clark suggested that law students could aid the federal defenders while learning the art of advocacy in the process. Such on-the-job training for students would serve much the same purpose as the back-to-school movement that provides continuing legal education for practicing attorneys (TIME, March 25); it might also enlarge the nation's short supply of trial lawyers by whetting...
Though a Caltech employee saw the final launching and informed the sheriff, it was too late to prevent the headline-making results. "We succeeded beyond our wildest hopes," said Gould. "We suckered everybody. We could have made the balloons do fantastic things-like zip across the sky-but we preferred to keep the experiment simple...