Word: prevented
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Harvard certainly has reason to believe it has found a winner in its new organizational set-up. Not only has the task force concept apparently precipitated a drop in violent crimes, but administrators believe the introduction of scientific crime-prevention techniques can pay off financially. About 60 per cent of robberies on campus can be prevented by awareness of simple means to prevent theft, Arthur Fitzhugh, another agent in the crime prevention unit, says. Moreover, he maintains, crime prevention can be built in to many University buildings, in the form of modern lighting and alarm systems. But such systems should...
...more than three decades Smokey Bear has been gently cajoling forest users to prevent fires. In ranger hat and dungarees, Smokey used plenty of "pleases" and "thank yous" in posters and broadcast spots. He still often does, but since forest fires have become such a problem, says a U.S. Forest Service spokesman, "we felt we needed to say it a little more forcefully this year." So, in a 60-sec. radio spot, a camper croons a story of how he left a fire burning, and then a bold new Smokey takes charge. He angrily bares his teeth and sings...
...category of Americans who seldom live in one place long enough to consider it home. They either have trouble finding a new church where the services are familiar or purposely avoid making any deep community ties. Explained a highly mobile executive in California: "We've discovered that to prevent the pain of saying goodbye, we don't say hello any more...
...Communications, the old Trib's last owner. Accordingly, IHT Corp. is suing the owners of the new Trib for trademark infringement. The Trib, in turn, has sued IHT and the Times for harassment and antitrust violations, asking $7.5 million in treble damages. Saffir accuses IHT of trying to prevent his paper from appearing, and notes that at least 250 U.S. papers use the word Tribune in their titles. Says he: "We're calling it the Trib because the name is short and snappy, with newspaper significance...
Alfred Cohn, the sixth member of the board who was absent from the meeting, said yesterday his initial reaction was to oppose the down-zoning. Cohn said he believes the residents who proposed the change were not trying primarily to preserve neighborhood values by their attempts to prevent non-residential building in the area...