Word: prevented
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...overwhelming majority of Americans concur on an issue as soon as it hits the news, then the public's decision on it seems to be a closed book. In such a situation, it feels almost pointless for us to continue discussing the topic. Furthermore, it is difficult to prevent ourselves from blindly jumping on the bandwagon when an American consensus has already seemingly been formed. The media also seems unwilling to challenge public opinion in such cases, as evidenced when few reporters challenged the legitimacy of the air strikes...
Regarding the argument that choosing gender goes against nature: the same objection was used in earlier times by people horrified by vaccines or heart transplants, which are now completely acceptable. Every time we use medicine to cure a disease or prevent a death, we go against nature--willingly. Admittedly, sex selection for family balancing cures no disease. In fact, though, no form of babymaking solves a medical problem. Sex selection, moreover, is medically benign in comparison with most reproductive technologies. No surgery is involved, and the entire process can theoretically be performed without a physician. Children born through this process...
...that Currie was not a witness in any proceeding at the time (she was never called in the Jones matter). Clinton, in his August grand-jury testimony, conceded that Currie "may have felt some ambivalence about how to react" to his words. He said he had always tried to prevent her from learning of the affair. "[I] did what people do when they do the wrong thing," he said. "I tried to do it where nobody else was looking...
...ignores the careful standards that the courts have mandated to prevent the misuse of perjury allegations... By selectively presenting the facts and failing to set out the full context of the answers that it claims may have been perjurious, the OIC has presented a wholly misleading picture. This tactic is most pronounced in the OIC's astonishing failure to set out the initial definition of "sexual relations" presented by the Jones lawyers at President Clinton's deposition... The burden that must be met by the OIC extends beyond showing that the President was wrong on the semantics, it must also...
...remember how he showed up in Baghdad late in 1990 in an effort to rescue his friend Saddam Hussein and head off the Gulf War. Since then he has been head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, which succeeded the KGB. As Foreign Minister, he has done his best to prevent the expansion of NATO, lift the sanctions on Iraq and forestall Western military action against Serbia. Even so, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has gone out of her way to maintain a good working relationship with him. Last July at a banquet in Manila, the two sang a parody...