Word: prevented
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Punctuation, one is taught, has a point: to keep up law and order. Punctuation marks are the road signs placed along the highway of our communication -- to control speeds, provide directions and prevent head-on collisions. A period has the unblinking finality of a red light; the comma is a flashing yellow light that asks us only to slow down; and the semicolon is a stop sign that tells us to ease gradually to a halt, before gradually starting up again. By establishing the relations between words, punctuation establishes the relations between the people using words. That...
...repairs for the accident stretched beyond the Carpenter Center railing, as Harvard aimed to sort out its bureaucratic jumble and prevent such a mix-up in the future...
...contract negotiations; the University has already dragged out past union election bids for as long as two years--decreasing awareness of the issues among staff and devaluing worker choice. So much for Bok's former support of unions' and workers' rights. Apparently, administrators sacrificed these ideals in order to prevent their underlings from gaining a measure of power...
...least some of the thousands of elderly Americans whose life savings are threatened by the astronomical cost of a catastrophic illness, the bill comes just in time. Last week House and Senate conferees approved the Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act, the largest expansion of Medicare since its creation 23 years ago. The new legislation is designed to prevent 31 million elderly and disabled Americans from being wiped out by the crippling cost of hospitalization. Among other things, the bill provides unlimited free hospital care after a $589 deductible is reached, a $1,400 annual limit on doctor's fees...
...whole, however, this year's Kwangju protests were far less threatening than those in the past. In the city of Kwangju itself, observances were remarkably peaceful. Rather than trying to prevent mourners from visiting the graves of Kwangju victims, authorities paved the road to the cemetery where many of them are buried...