Word: prevented
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...absolute negligence on the committee's part for not making clear the requirements," Tamera M. Stanton '79, president of the club, said yesterday. She added the committee should have taken steps to prevent those "members" who had not paid their dues from voting...
...possible to infuse poverty-stricken neighborhoods with a sense of community and purpose, and thus to develop the internal controls that help reduce (or prevent) crime...
...property taxes, and Arizona limited state spending to 7% of its residents' total personal income. Texans not only cut property taxes by about $500 million, but also barred their legislators from increasing outlays faster than the state's economic growth. Massachusetts overwhelmingly approved a complex measure designed to prevent sharp boosts in residential property taxes. Declared Arizona State Senator Ray Rottas, the G.O.P. sponsor of his state's winning proposal: "The message is simple. Taxpayers want rampant spending brought under control...
While Afrikaners adjusted to the shock of Mulder's resignation, Prime Minister P.W. Botha struggled desperately to prevent the scandal from spreading. Botha publicly dismissed Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert. The jurist had conducted a one-man probe of the operation of the slush fund during the time that Mulder served as Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. Mostert's report produced testimony from witnesses that the Information Department had illegally financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions...
...cases and 93 deaths. Califano responded by invoking the "imminent hazard" law, which had never before been used, and banned the substance. Only last month, following another letter from Wolfe, Califano issued a sweeping warning about the dangers of DES, a drug once given to pregnant women to help prevent miscarriages that has since been shown to produce cancer or genital disorders in these women and their offspring...