Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston-based organization of labor and community groups has introduced a bill to the state legislature which would prevent corporations from relocating without compensating employees or the community...
...chief lessons from the new series of world conflicts is the extreme limit on the ability of all the great powers to determine the course of events. China, despite its pretensions of becoming a global force, met with no success in its efforts to prevent a Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. The Soviet Union, despite its nearly one million troops on the Chinese border, was unable to prevent China's openly announced punitive expedition into Viet Nam. The U.S. lost its own direct influence in Indochina in 1975 when the remnants of the once mighty American presence there abandoned...
Fine, Donald Fleming, and Hooft all notched baskets in the last minute, but Cornell kept adding points at the free throw line to prevent Harvard from coming any closer than the eight-point margin that separated the teams at the buzzer...
...even "Pi Eta Suite," but do try to see Overtures in Asia Minor, the 1979 Hasty Pudding offering. This year's showcase of lousy puns and a male kickline deals with spies in Near East opium dens and a butler who, quoting T.S. Eliot, foils a dastardly scheme to prevent forever Anglo-Saxon morality. Or something like that. The plot doesn't really matter, with all those sumptuous sets and gorgeous costumes and knock-out numbers. And those legs. At the Hasty Pudding Theater (would any decent place house this show...
...nothing can come of their relationship; a kiss in a hallway is the extent of their physical contact. But the reporter does unravel the writer's plot in time to prevent her carrying it out. More important, we understand that his attentions are enough to restore her sense of her own worth, to bring her out of her temporary insanity. One might perhaps wish that Apted had not used a diffusion filter quite as often as he did (it sometimes seems the English fog has crept into almost every room his characters occupy), and that he had allowed...