Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand to the International Monetary Fund (to which it already owes $1.4 billion) to ask for a fresh drawing of $1.4 billion, but also had to arrange a multinational loan of $1.6 billion from its partners, thus creating a new $3 billion support package in order to prevent the total collapse of the pound. To back up its action, the government raised the interest rate from 61% to 8% in order to attract foreign deposits, ordered British banks to limit their loans to priority borrowers, issued restrictions on installment buying and credit and announced plans to cut $240 million from...
Harvard will permit the Boston Latin-Boston English football game to be played at the Stadium again this Thanksgiving, but the University has taken precautions to prevent a recurrence of last year's post-game rioting in Harvard Square...
...MBTA will open its subway entrance on Memorial Drive across from Eliot House to prevent congestion in the Square...
...court acted after a group of open-housing demonstrators in Louisville had aroused the ire of local citizens. To prevent trouble, the police had made arrests on several charges, including vagrancy and loitering. The demonstrators countered by challenging the constitutionality of all the laws they had been accused of violating...
Under White, however, Boston will not become a laboratory for academics. White may be part of the Boston Establishment but he still has a tremendous concern for "the little people" that Louise Day Hicks constantly calls her own. His own personal traditions and the traditions of Boston would prevent him from allowing the city to be used for social experiments that have only a heuristic value. It's also politically unwise to allow academics to have a more or less unconfined role in the city administration. "Professors," says one old Boston observer, "just don't have political savvy...