Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge, and at other colleges, and of giving them an opportunity to express their ideas upon practical questions. It ought to be added perhaps, that, while we made no pretension to wit, we hope not to be dull. There will be several poems and lighter sketches to prevent any impressions of heaviness...
...residual anti-war fervor left over from Vietnam was not sufficient to prevent The Crimson from supporting the Gulf...
...tape has been the subject of nearly two years of litigation. In 1996 the Lees filed a $10 million lawsuit against Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione to prevent the magazine from publishing still photographs gleaned from the tape. The Lees lost, and Penthouse ran the photos that June. Meanwhile, copies of the purloined video found their way into the hands of various Internet impresarios, who began posting shots of the more graphic scenes on their Websites. Last fall the Lees went to court seeking an injunction against the Seattle company, Internet Entertainment Group, which had announced its intention...
...wants to transform the credit-card business by plugging U.S. banks into the American Express network and thereby enabling the lenders to issue Amex credit cards. That's the last thing Visa and MasterCard want to see happen, and they've stymied Golub with bylaws that prevent their U.S. bank partners from offering other cards. Golub may get some help from the Justice Department, which is reportedly investigating the competitive behavior of the two big credit-card associations...
...have just attempted, unsuccessfully, to kid her out of her adamancy, but she only repeats what she has been demanding for the past hour: "Put me in my bed!" Yet the nurses have told her over and over that she must sit up part of the day to prevent bedsores and worse...