Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University ban on competitive boxing will prevent the Harvard Boxing Club from hosting a charity match to raise money to aid African athletes, the club's co-captain said yesterday...
...prevent students who want to join a military scholarship program from doing so. But there is no reason why such a program has to be affiliated with any educational institution. Any branch of the armed forces can afford to buy a building in Cambridge, teach courses in military theory and grant stipends to help students pay for a Harvard education. Harvard does not need to be involved at all, and it should...
...Holocaust is also wrongly invoked by both extremes of the Palestinians homeland debate. Some far right political leaders interpret the Holocaust as a carte blanche for mass detentions, brutal beatings or even expulsion of Arabs from the territories. Since we suffered, the argument goes, no one can prevent us from making Palestinians suffer too. "Never again--and who cares what you think," wrote Meyer Kahane, the foremost exponent of this view, in The New York times...
...response, the Swiss government has promised to draft tough anti- laundering legislation by mid-May. Last week the federal banking commission announced that it will introduce stiff regulations on bank-note trading to prevent drug traffickers and other criminals from using the country's famed secret bank accounts. The commission also published a 28-page report that faulted Credit Suisse, which handled the bulk of the money in the billion- dollar scheme, for inadequately supervising its accounts...
What's wrong in all this? In Japan distributing stock before a firm goes public is not illegal; in fact, many newly formed companies routinely ask banks and other firms to purchase a portion of their unlisted stock before the public sale to prevent market volatility once it is trading. But prosecutors in the Recruit case intend to prove that the offers in many cases constituted bribes in exchange for anticipated political and business favors. If the prosecutors find evidence of a political quid pro quo, recipients could be charged with accepting bribes...