Word: prevented
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...elections will probably be more orderly next semester because Winthrop drew up an elaborate set of by-laws to prevent abuses and make balloting procedures uniform throughout the College...
...ugly sight of Israeli civilians attacking soldiers of their own army was an apt symbol of the country's current acrimonious mood. During an emotional Cabinet meeting last week, Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan fought successfully to prevent Begin from offering his hard-line plan for limited self-rule at the start of the autonomy talks. Instead, the two ministers won Cabinet approval to use the Begin plan only as an informal "guideline" during the negotiations...
Riccardo, who will remain as chairman, is scheduled to be replaced as chief executive toward the end of the year by President Lee lacocca, but long lead times and lack of capital will prevent lacocca from making any significant product changes before 1982. So far his much promoted fiveyear, 50,000-mile protection plan has not done much to move Chrysler's top-heavy line of big cars out of the showrooms. Sales of the Omni and Horizon compacts have almost doubled since last year, but their production is limited because of a contract with Volkswagen, which makes...
Even if patients object to violations of their privacy, they cannot prevent them since hospitals and insurance companies commonly insist that patients sign "any and all" release forms as a precondition of treatment. These give the institutions virtually a free hand to distribute information from a patient's files. Nor do the limited restrictions that exist provide much assurance of secrecy. Information can often be ferreted out of computer memories by anyone with access to a terminal. The curious can also enter busy hospital record rooms by simply passing themselves off as doctors. Besides learning about a patient...
...power on earth can prevent the increasing equality of conditions ... from leading every member of the community to be wrapped up in himself... And no one can foretell into what disgrace and wretchedness they would plunge themselves lest they should have to sacrifice something of their own well-being to the prosperity of their fellow creatures...