Word: prevented
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...soon would be off on a different road, or so one imagined. It would be another four years before the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, and another seven years before the North Vietnamese armies would sweep south and accomplish the result that American power had sought so long to prevent. During 1968, an addditional 16,000 Americans died in the war. By the time the polished black granite of the Viet Nam Memorial was installed in Washington in 1982 -- an act of national reconciliation that took years -- more than 58,000 names of the dead had to be inscribed...
...past AARP has exercised restraint; in 1985 it even endorsed the Senate Republican proposal of a one-time cost-of-living freeze on Social Security. But with the hiring of tough-talking Lobbyist Jack Carlson as executive director, the group began to harden its stance, partly to prevent other organizations of the elderly from stealing the thunder. Next on AARP's agenda: a multibillion-dollar proposal for federal insurance to cover long- term at-home or nursing-home care. While other lobbies are often content with dumping a blizzard of preprinted postcards on Capitol Hill, AARP members tend to write...
...visiting the U.S. capital, to use restraint. "We are sorry we have to use force," Rabin said later. "But whenever there is a violent demonstration using Molotov cocktail bottles, throwing stones, setting fires, attacking car passengers, the police and the military will use whatever is needed to prevent...
...that transmits life. Though this is not the issue with homosexuals, the church does not want to appear to be condoning homosexual acts. Proponents of the new AIDS policy argue that providing information about condoms may be justified and even in keeping with moral theology in order to prevent the greater evil of spreading the lethal AIDS virus. Critics argue that it will encourage many, particularly teenagers, to believe the bishops are advising "If you can't be good, be careful...
Former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan testified about his efforts to prevent a Korean client of Deaver's from getting a two-minute meeting with , the President. Regan said he repeatedly vetoed the trade-related meeting, only to see it reappear on Reagan's schedule. Deaver was paid $475,000 for setting up the appointment and doing a few other errands for the Koreans. Philip Morris paid Deaver $250,000 to help win access to the South Korean tobacco market; company officials acknowledged they were overjoyed when Deaver obtained an hour-long meeting with South Korean President Chun...