Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday afternoon, however, none of the posters in buildings open over the weekend were still in place. "I know they've been taken down in all the dorms, in the Union, and in Lehman Hall," he said. "It's clear that someone wants to prevent students has to say about the present political situation...
Posters placed around Harvard to advertise a speech by a United Auto Workers leaders have been systematically removed in an attempt to prevent students from learning of the speech, an official of the group sponsoring the speech charged yesterday...
...Construction unions make sure that wages stay high by keeping the supply of craftsmen inadequate to meet the demand In the Oakland, Calif , area, the number of union plumbers, currently 900, is actually shrinking because the union is training only ten apprentices this year. Anachronistic spread-the-work rules prevent the most efficient use of the men who are available. An Oakland contractor who is a master plumber, for example, is forbidden to work more than four hours on any one job himself. He must leave the rest of the work to less-expert hired hands...
Hard Decisions. The board's proposals must now be approved by the 1,366 members of the exchange and by the Securities and Exchange Commission. And if approval is granted, the exchange must find a way to prevent disruptive takeovers of member firms by speculators, or even by the Mafia. Another problem is that many of the smaller firms will have a hard time selling their securities in competition with the big brokerage houses, and some are likely to fold for lack of capital. The smaller firms, which have relatively high overhead, also stand to be hurt by volume...
...come into the gate and get your trashy sister off South Campus." Obviously tempers snapped. As the poor whites rushed towards the gates, they were dismissed summarily by both the Black students' security force and the College Security, which was powerless to remove the BPRSC but which did prevent some white students from getting hurt...