Word: prevented
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...said that the Amnesty group in Cambridge has been working on Mykhaylenko's case for seven years. Fuchs said they have written thousands of letters about her. Their interest may have helped to prevent the Soviet government from administering powerful neuroleptic drugs--which he said are often given to Soviet psychiatric patients--to Mykhaylenko, he said...
Those who oppose the Reagan restrictions argue that the Administration is hiding behind the mosaic theory to prevent scrutiny of its policies. "The intent of that argument is to have the discretionary power to limit information," Blanton says. "What they're trying to do is to get a free pass on classifying information to avoid embarrassment...
Would the College ever go so far in the name of diversity to prevent students with the same concentration or activity from rooming together? Probably not, but that is the logical conclusion of the Dowling plan (which forgets that students daily encounter people of different backgrounds in the classroom and in their extracurricular activites). Diversity is a noble goal, but being free to select where one lives should not be sacrificed on its behalf...
City Councillor Alice K. Wolf said she was "not surprised that Harvard, an active developer, would decide" to try to prevent the zoning changes...
...that stern policy did not prevent the ruling National Party from suffering a parliamentary by-election defeat at the hands of the far-right Conservative Party, its third such loss in the past month. Last week's voting took place in the urban mining constituency of Randfontein, in the Transvaal, a sign that the fast-rising Conservative Party, long seen as the voice primarily of rural Afrikaners, is broadening its base. It was also a sign that the Conservatives, who hold 22 seats in Parliament, vs. the National Party's 133, could pose a serious threat in next October...