Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reagan is aware of the problem, says he is looking for ways to prevent "the big bump coming all at once." But he refuses to retreat. "Withholding is a painless way of extracting money, and the very fact that it is painless means Government is always willing to ask for more," he says. "It is Government's responsibility to use your money wisely." That responsibility, he insists, is his-whatever the political fallout...
...almost invariably discriminated against. Two years ago Parliament passed a halfhearted race-relations act forbidding discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters and public transport, but the law is so impossible to enforce that no one has yet been convicted of breaking it. Moreover, it makes no attempt at all to prevent discrimination in jobs and housing, which are the real heart of the matter to the "colored" trying to live decent lives in Britain...
During preparations for its successful trip to the moon, Surveyor was spared a severe test that future unmanned spacecraft on missions to Mars and Venus will have to endure: dry-heat sterilization to prevent the contamination of other planets by earthly microorganisms. The terrestrial bugs can do little harm on the lifeless moon, but experts agree that their premature arrival on other planets could obliterate or alter possible native life forms before they could be studied. There is a growing feeling, nonetheless, that the U.S. may have accepted international sterilization standards that are unnecessarily high...
Ever since the Greek Army overthrew the government last Friday, it has been issuing contradictory reports and confusing labels. The military leaders claim that they acted to prevent a revolution planned by former premier George Papandreou, that King Constantine supported the coup and that the new government would somehow bring stability and remove the threat of "dangerous leftists...
...United States government should exert its considerable influence immediately to prevent any executions by the Army regime and to pressure the regime into restoring the nation's constitutional processes. U.S. military aid to Greece amounts to about $100 million a year, and the Greek army is totally integrated into NATO...