Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grim, costly race between the U.S. and Russia to build antiballistic-missile systems. But there is a more intriguing theory-that the Russians acted now because they are concerned about the prospect that Richard Nixon may be the next President. "You can say they are doing it to prevent Nixon from being elected," declares Columbia Sovietologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Humphrey adviser. "And you can say they are doing it because they think that if he's elected, tensions will increase." "They are concerned," adds Yale Political Scientist Frederick Barghoorn, "about creating pressure against anyone who is for a hard...
Battering Ram. Having beautified old Bargème, la Patronne became worried about property development around it. To prevent real estate sharks from cashing in on the town's new attractiveness, she persuaded André Malraux's Culture Ministry in Paris to classify the town as a historical site, thus forbidding new structures on lots of less than 2½ acres. The decree hit Bargème like a battering ram: many villagers, it turned out, had hoped to parcel off their own land at premium prices to wealthy Parisian weekenders. Led by fighting-mad Mayor Isnard...
...traffic jam patterns inspired the city to install two large and several small traffic islands in the middle of Brattle Square. These, surfaced first with mud puddles and then iced with macadam, are now dead space. They offer no visual interest and serve no social function, except to prevent cars from doing U-turns from one one-way street to another...
...must not happen!" the signs warned. "It is a desecration. Come by the thousands to the Holy Wall." Task forces of black-frocked, black-hatted rabbis and students took turns guarding the city's Wailing Wall, while more than 1,000 Jerusalem policemen stood on the alert to prevent violence...
...between users and suppliers) have long been severely limited by well-established antitrust law. The status of conglomerate mergers, between companies not in direct competition, remains uncertain. Only last May, Justice issued a 27-page merger guideline suggesting that conglomerates would be opposed if, for instance, the merger would prevent two noncompeting partners from entering each other's fields on their own. Thus, this month a federal District Court upheld a key Justice challenge to a merger of Wilson Sporting Goods, a subsidiary of LTV, with a small maker of gymnastic equipment. The grounds: Wilson might well have entered...