Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary Gardner at the time of his presidency of the Carnegie Corporation, "How to Prevent Organizational...
...luke- warm at best, the pickings are still slim. Behind his tinted glasses, Lloyd broods quietly about his future. Now 28, he says sadly: "So few have really gotten through. That's what terrifies me. Women have taken them, or drugs, or something else has happened to prevent their expressions from going on. I haven't seen anybody do what I've done so soon and not get snuffed out somewhere...
...York City had close to 29,000 taxis. But the Depression put many of them out of business, and competition for passengers among those remaining led to such ferociovis cab wars -with arson and shooting-that the city in 1937 severely limited the number to prevent even more violence. New York now has only 11,772 licensed taxis to serve almost 1,000,000 passengers a day. Similar hold-downs afflict people in Boston, Philadelphia, Miami and San Francisco...
...Treaty lies the lesson learned in the tragic half century since the First World War. After that war our country withdrew from effective world responsibility. When aggressors challenged the peace in Manchuria, Ethiopia, and then Central Europe during the 1930's, the world community did not act to prevent their success. The result was a Second World War -- which could have been prevented...
...penetrating cover story on the chaos inside Red China [Jan. 13] reveals one clear fact: Red China is a dragon in trouble, if not a dragon in sleep. Communist rule, after 17 years of "leap forward" and "construction," has never been stable. Even the Great Wall could not prevent the outside world from knowing that the developing power struggle might mean the end of the regime...