Word: prevented
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Alleviating these sinister superlatives is an exciting idea: it is possible not only to prevent a large number of accidents, but also to immunize passengers against trauma and grave injury when accidents do occur. With effort and purpose, the nation could cut the traffic toll almost as sharply and effectively as it did smallpox and polio. In dozens of laboratories in Detroit, and on campuses from Harvard to U.C.L.A., engineers, statisticians, highway designers, and psychologists are working toward the goal of "delethalization...
...lush lawn of the Merdeka to arrest Su bandrio and 14 leftist Ministers, reportedly flung them into the grimy guardhouse at Djakarta garrison headquarters. Then Suharto announced over the Djakarta radio, which he had also seized, that he had done it "in the name of President Sukarno," to prevent the Ministers "from becoming the victims of the Indonesian people, who are becoming restless and uncontrolled...
...such a force were established, it would not have to be very large, simply because the "presence of such a force to prevent aggressive action would be enough" to prevent such aggression, he asserted...
...smaller nations would learn that these U.N. forces could prevent aggression, and they would cut down on their military expenditures. The larger nations would follow, he said...
After studying the student revolt, which shook Berkeley in 1964, a nine-man faculty committee headed by Professor Charles Muscatine has proposed a series of sweeping reforms to prevent "dehumanization" of the 27,000-student campus. In a report submitted last week to the powerful Academic Senate, the committee stressed the need to promote more contact between faculty and undergraduates, to channel student opinion to policy-makers, and to improve the quality of teaching. But the committee avoided extremist solutions--the temptation to compensate for past by granting students excessive power...