Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of these groups urge restrictions that would prevent shops from renting excessively violent films to minors. Some also advocate a new Motion Picture Association of America rating for violent films, as well as regulations requiring stores to display the ratings that have already been given to videocassettes. Jenny Pomeroy, president of the Junior League of Bronxville, N.Y., which has mounted a campaign against these films, advocates an R-V rating for violence, similar to the PG-13 designation advising parents that a film may contain material inappropriate for children under...
...without making "serious inroads" in their well- established European defense commitments. Still, British and French warships in the region, though operating independently, maintain close contact with American naval forces stationed there. Says a senior British defense official: "If there were any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz and prevent the passage of Western oil tankers through the gulf, I have no doubt that the three navies would act together to keep the route open...
...control system they will be able to meet those recommendations without reducing the number of flights entering or leaving the critical choke points. Using the new computers, supervisors can monitor with greater precision specific sections of airspace that are becoming dangerously overcrowded. Traffic jams can then be alleviated or prevented by shifting the altitude of some flights or rerouting others so that they bypass congested areas. By this fall, when more complex computer programs should be in place, controllers hope to be able to predict at least two hours in advance when an airspace sector is about to become saturated...
...kill or be killed. He earns easy, spends easy." These prospectors have recently been supplanted by two powerful mining companies that have government concessions to prospect on Indian land. Also on hand are an unknown number of soldiers, who are building a $109 million network of outposts to prevent gold smuggling and to keep Colombian rebels and cocaine couriers from violating the Brazilian border...
...spirit of these agreements--to prevent civilian death on a massive scale--is clear. Yet the relevant third parties determined that the Nigerian government was not guilty under the letter of international law: not enough Ibos were imperiled to qualify as genocide, the starvation was not intentional, merely collateral...