Word: prevented
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...bedeviling relationship of foreign creditors with America the Debtor has shown up strongly in recent weeks. Foreign governments have intervened repeatedly to prevent the U.S. dollar from sinking even faster than it has so far. A weaker dollar would make American exports cheaper and imports more expensive -- and that would make the U.S. better able to repay its debts. But America's major creditors, who are also its major trading partners, are not wild about a further rapid slide in the dollar's value: such a precipitate decline would erode the trade surpluses that made them creditors in the first...
...Haven, Conn., consists of the outershell protein of the AIDS virus, which researchers hope will stimulate the body into producing an immune response against the intact invader. Says NIAID Director Anthony Fauci: "This is the first step in what will be a long process toward developing a vaccine to prevent AIDS...
...quota problem is not confined to colleges. At San Francisco's ultracompetitive Lowell High, Chinese Americans constitute 45% of the student body. But no city school may have more than 45% of its students from any ethnic group, a rule originally set by the courts to prevent de facto segregation of blacks and Hispanics. As a result, Lowell is having to turn away qualified Chinese-American students, a task that School Principal Alan Fibish describes as "odious...
Minnie can't explain why her children have gone wrong. She feels powerless to prevent Kemya from going out with drug dealers or the boys from sidewalk hustling. For her, unlike her children, the streets are foreign territory. "I think we lost control at some point," she says, as though trying to recall something in the distant past. "I don't exactly know when, but somehow we lost control over the kids...
...Obviously the hope must be that as we learn how the gene works, we can use that to find new ways of treatment," says Bodmer. Indeed, researchers speculate that some remedies may be fairly simple: a diet high in fiber and calcium, for example, may prevent or compensate for these genetic deficiencies...