Word: prevented
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...drug safety studied every suspected case it could find in Britain and concluded that a woman taking such pills "incurs a slightly increased risk of developing thromboembolic disorders, but that risk is small, and less than the risks from ordinary pregnancy and delivery that these contraceptives are intended to prevent...
...presence in Asia has been necessary to counterbalance Chinese power and prevent a major Asian war. "The task of simultaneously restraining China and incorporating China peacefully into the international community will not be easy, but it is one of the greatest challenges facing us in the years ahead." Beyond China, Southeast Asia "comprises ten separate states and nearly 250 million people. This region may well hold the key to whether a political equilibrium for Asia as a whole can be achieved, a question which in turn affects the future of the entire world...
...that the Roman Catholic Church has traditionally tried to prevent the spread of error and heresy is by the use of the imprimatur. According to canon law, any book by a Catholic layman or cleric dealing with faith or morals must be cleared by a diocesan censor and approved for publication by a bishop, normally shown by the Latin word imprimatur - meaning "Let it be printed." In the postconciliar church, any kind of censorship seems anachronistic, and there is a wide spread feeling among publishers and theologians that the whole system ought to be abandoned...
...chief executives like him, will be needing all the polish they can muster in the year ahead. The pace of U.S. globalization is so vigorous that other nations are increasingly concerned and cantankerous about it. "Actually," says Csf.'s Danzin, "there is no European government strong enough to prevent an American company from dominating a market." Jean-Jacques Servan Schreiber, whose book The American Challenge describes the problem and has become a runaway bestseller on the Continent, prophesies: "The third industrial power, after the U.S. and the Soviet Union, could easily be in 15 years not Europe but American...
...Preventing Erosion. Under terms of the settlement, which is expected to be ratified handily by the rank and file, the $4.68 an hour that the average G.M. worker now gets in wages and benefits would rise by about a dollar over three years. Agreement on non-economic matters was not so definite. On elimination of jobs through automation, for example, the two sides agreed to set up a committee that would merely try to prevent what Reuther calls "erosion of the bargaining unit...