Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...altitude on the radarscope ($3,500). Even some private pilots concede that special training for those wishing to enter the high-pressure "bird cages" around major airports should be required. But the problem is how this experience can be obtained without posing the very danger it is meant to prevent -as at San Diego, where the special training available only at Lindbergh Field drew the Cessna into the area...
...prevent a further fall in the value of the greenback, the U.S. Government, in close cooperation with leading foreign central banks, should step in and buy large quantities of dollars on world markets. This would require assembling a vast war chest of funds to show currency speculators that Washington has the money to back up that policy. Two fast and impressive steps would be increasing sales from the nation's $60 billion gold reserves, as former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns suggests, and enlarging the so-called swap network of dollar defense funds from $25 billion to $100 billion...
...again suspended; in the last papal interregnum Camerlengo Villot was so strict that one Cardinal who came by his old office was asked to leave immediately. One other traditional rite will not occur this time. A dead Pope's papal ring is ceremonially smashed; historically, the purpose was to prevent forgeries. But John Paul's papal ring will not be smashed?because there had not yet been time to mint...
Following the provisions of the Railway Act, which was designed to prevent sudden, paralyzing rail shutdowns, the President appointed a fact-finding panel of three arbitrators to recommend terms of a settlement within 30 days. After that the Government will seek to prod both sides into an accord. If at the end of 60 days no agreement is reached, the union would be free to resume its strike. Under such circumstances, past Presidents have sought emergency legislation to avert another walkout. In 1971, for example, Congress imposed a settlement after a strike by railroad signalmen...
...work the presses is shown in the recent newspaper strikes. Newswriters are removed from the threat of mechanization and have much less to lose from recent technological innovations. They tend to side with management on this issue. This psychological victory for the owners and managers abets their desire to prevent news and editorial writers from seeking alternatives to news and editorial control...