Word: prevented
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...failed to prevent another Crimson bust. But this year, expect something new--a winning Ivy record, and perhaps a first league title...
...Crimson faced the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in the last game of the 1947 season. Fearing racial violence, Virginia officials attempted to prevent Harvard's Black tackle, Chester M. Pierce '48, from taking part in the game...
...Reagan Administration contends the station is meant to close a gap in the Soviets' early-warning radar network. To prevent longer-range tracking of missiles, the ABM treaty requires that such stations be on the perimeter of the U.S.S.R. Krasnoyarsk is 480 miles inland. This location and the type of radar under construction, says the Pentagon, would be suitable for a Soviet Star Wars system in which the station could direct interception of incoming missiles. The Soviets have claimed the radar would be used only to track satellites in deep space, which would not violate any treaties...
...natural sanction for certain types of activities." Aboard Spoleto, John Paul said homosexuals "are in the heart of the church," along with "all people who suffer." In his first-ever remarks on AIDS, the Pope said, "The church is doing all that is possible to heal and especially to prevent the moral background" of the disease...
That evening the Pope met at Xavier University with leaders from the 215- member Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. The association is lobbying to prevent a pending Vatican decree that would require doctrinal orthodoxy of theologians who teach at Catholic campuses. John Paul did not refer to that dispute, but boldly insisted that theologians need to work in unity with the Pope and bishops. "The fruits of their work," said he, "must ultimately be tested and validated" by church officialdom...