Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soldiers Field on the bus ride back to the Yard, Reardon told the sad tale of how the oldest concrete stadium in the country is in danger of being condemned. An architectural engineering study has revealed weaknesses in its support system, and funds will have to be raised to prevent its decay and demise. Reardon told the committee that "parts of Baker Field at Columbia have been condemned, and it's very embarrassing to a school (not to mention its athletic director) to have it happen...
...control most of the country's arable land) assembling their black workers and local villagers together in order to lecture them on the importance of voting. The farmers and the government would then provide "armed escorts" to the polls. The purpose of the escort service, of course, was to prevent those nasty Patriotic Front guerillas from messing with the democratic process. Burns and the wire services reporters made the escorts sound almost as benign as the Harvard Police's late-night drive-home service...
...normalization of U.S.-China relations: We did everything possible to prevent that nightmare from taking place. However, it did occur. If I were to say that the change has had no damaging effect at all, that would be wrong. There are still people who feel hurt psychologically. The two weeks after Dec. 16 [however] were the most unstable period. The stock market dropped, and the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the New Taiwan dollar on the black market rose to NT $43 for $1. Domestic and foreign investors seemed to be reconsidering their investments. But it seems...
...freedom and stability here. If any crisis should occur, they would unite to counter the challenge. If Communist China were to take military action against us, many people there would oppose it, and it would lead to an antiwar movement and perhaps even a civil war. That possibility will prevent the Communists from taking military action against Taiwan. You must [also] consider the natural barrier between us, the Taiwan Strait, which is 100 miles wide at its narrowest point and 120 miles at the broadest. [The Communists] would have to be prepared to sacrifice 1 million, 2 million or even...
...shorter list of parameters than the U.S. had originally sought). Nor could there be a change in the fuel type of an existing rocket, the number of stages, the maximum number of warheads or the minimum weight of individual warheads. These last two provisions were meant to prevent the Soviets from developing an SS-18 with a capacity to launch as many as 40 smaller warheads?four times as many as the ten-MlRV maximum for the SS-18 stipulated by the treaty...