Word: prevented
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...Saturday Night Massacre. Bork's name became a household word overnight when, as acting Attorney General, he fired Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, refused to do so. At his judicial confirmation hearings nine years later, Bork said he acted to prevent chaos at the Justice Department and moved quickly to assure continuation of the independent probe. That seemed to settle the matter. But in recent weeks, some Massacre witnesses have quarreled with portions of his sworn story and suggested Bork was in fact acting to help Nixon defy a lawful court...
...surgical plan, initiated by Rogers and Pediatric Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, combined several intricate procedures. To avoid major hemorrhaging in the brains, they proposed to drain the boys' blood supply completely and stop the hearts. To prevent the brains and other organs from starving during this period without blood-borne oxygen and nutrients, metabolic demands would be reduced to a minimum by lowering the babies' body temperature to 68 degrees F, putting them into a state of suspended animation. Because their brains are resilient, children below the age of 18 months have a remarkable capacity to recover from induced hypothermia, which...
...prevent a replay of the surge in sympathy for North, Biden has ordered that the table for the committee members be placed at the same level as that of the witness. In the Iran-contra hearings, where the congressional members sat on a dais, the television cameras made it seem that they were lecturing and hectoring the witnesses from on high...
...service less than 4% of the warheads the two sides have arrayed against each other. It would not apply to any of the 11,000 Soviet long-range warheads targeted against the continental U.S. Nor is there anything in the fine print of the prospective deal that would prevent the Soviets from replacing every two-stage intermediate-range SS-20 they dismantle with a three-stage intercontinental ballistic missile called the SS-25. That rocket is fired from a similar launcher and can hit not only $ Bonn and Paris but also Boston and Peoria. Substituting...
Reagan's list of loonies included Iran, Libya, North Korea, Cuba and Nicaragua. In fact, this is a list of small states that have tormented the U.S., delivering pinpricks that America has found impossible either to tolerate or prevent. Admitting this, however, is difficult. Easier to dismiss it all as the work of crazy states. Reagan was certainly right that these countries are "united by their fanatical hatred of the United States." But that in itself is not proof of derangement. Hatred is a common, often useful, phenomenon in international relations. And fanaticism is a measure of passion, not irrationality...