Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will the transfer limit prevent extremes in under- and over-crowding. Mather House lost ten per cent of its assigned population to attrition--more than the eight per cent level Spence assumed it would lose. Yet 31 suites in Mather remain overcrowded...
...related development, spokesmen for the Campaign to Stop Government Spying announced yesterday that the group has mailed letters to the presidents of 42 American colleges and universities urging them to "follow the lead" of President Bok "in adopting guidelines which would prevent secret CIA work on college campuses...
...promptly, it can reduce the cholera death rate to near zero. The major obstacle to universal use of the lifesaving solution is that the poorer countries, which need it most, have difficulty obtaining sufficient medication and training enough nurses and technicians to administer it. Thus, while effective sanitation can prevent the disease, and treatment for a near-certain cure is available, cholera remains a grim threat...
...rates, and it has had great difficulty in choosing goals that are consistent with each other. For example, it may try to keep the "Fed funds" rate -the rate on reserves that banks lend to each other-at around 6%. But it may then find that in order to prevent the rate from rising above that, it has to pump reserves into the banking system, and that increases the money supply more than it intended...
...federal labor relations statutes now on the books are changed. Congress is now beginning to consider a series of Carter administration proposals to amend the National Labor Relations Act, making it more difficult for employers such as Harvard to take unfair advantage of their wealth and size to prevent unionization. By speeding up the process by which workers may gain the right to hold organizing elections and by placing limits on the extent to which employers may use dubious legal tactics to avoid bargaining with certified unions, the bill would generally strengthen the hands of unions that have a solid...