Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SINCE THE painters have become an issue, the University-long the bastion of free thought and inquiry-has gone to great lengths to prevent dissent. Crew chiefs have been told to call the foreman (who is supposed to call in higher authority, including the police if necessary) if radical students speak to painters while on the job. Robert Murphy, an assistant foreman, ordered CRIMSON reporter Reay Brown to leave a building where painters were working. It was a Harvard dorm, where a student is normally permitted. It is a campaign to intimidate the workers. (As union officials have admitted privately...
...they had stepped in to prevent the militants from turning the demonstration the Mobe had so carefully organized into a scene of senseless, polarizing violence. A young Mobe marshal moved down the sidewalk pleading with the crowd through his megaphone, "This is not an official Mobe demonstration. Will all those not connected with this demonstration please leave this area...
...Stretching the phase-out to two years, Finch explained, would prevent the "excessive economic disruption" of an immediate ban. But even if the use of DDT were stopped now, he admitted, "it would take ten years or longer for the environment to purge itself" of the chemical...
...thousands of American women, the nation's capital became its most enlightened city last week. Suddenly, Washington, D.C., found itself with no law whatever to prevent doctors from performing abortions...
...temporary suspension policy formulated by the "Subcommittee of Six" -composed of three students and three Faculty members from the Committee of Fifteen-the Dean of the Faculty can temporarily suspend students without the subcommittee's approval. He can take this action when he concludes that temporary suspension would prevent an imminent "unacceptable activity" as defined by the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities...