Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cigarette smoking, controlling hypertension and lowering their cholesterol. Many Americans have responded to the first two recommendations. Now, increasingly, they are listening to researchers like Peter Kwiterovich, professor of pediatrics and medicine at Johns Hopkins, who declares, "We have the evidence that if you lower cholesterol, you can prevent heart disease...
...change of signal came too late to prevent most of the session's 37 speakers from sniping at the Baltic state. While Estonian President Arnold Ruutel watched impassively from the dais, his republic was accused of "creating a hotbed of tensions." In his own presentation, Ruutel repeated demands that Estonians be allowed to decide what form of parliament they wanted. There should be no place in the new laws, said Ruutel, for "formalistic texts that do not take into account the specific differences and demands" of each region...
Silber, who is widely credited with upgrading the image of Boston University, attempted to install the new rules to prevent the school from turning into a hotel. Students had complained that they were forced to house unwanted guests brought in by roommates...
...criminal justice system--Lord High Executioner. All other functions of state fall under the aegis of the corrupt, sneering Pooh-Bah (Kenneth Bamberger). The regal Mikado (Anton Quist) makes certain that the "punishment fit the crime"--that ludicrous laws decapitate luckless lovers. Fortunately, palmgreasing and artful seduction prevent anyone from getting hurt...
Although released from detention, I am still under restriction orders which restrict my mobility and prevent my particpation in social and political activities and organizations...