Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressions. The ferocity with which these creatures went after the bait was remarkable. The hands of our Indian guides were covered with scars of old piranha bites. Upon catching one of these tiny demons, the guides immediately had to cut certain nerves about the piranha's mouth to prevent its biting...
Telephone officials were not dismayed. Said one: "Some of the calls may turn out to be pretty low-key emergencies, but we'll have to accept them in all fairness to the ones which may really save a life, prevent a hold up, or get aid faster to an accident." If the six-month experiment works out, other Bell systems across the country are expected to follow suit. If so, they will only be catching up. Paris has already begun installing pay phones direct access to the operator in emergencies, and Londoners have long able to get help...
...drugs for any private patient whose doctor certifies that he cannot afford them. Last week Roche announced an other generous move that may put a welcome dent in the huge drug bill that the Federal Government expects to pay for Medicare patients. Heeding President Johnson's "plea to prevent spiraling costs," Roche slashed by 25% the price of all drugs that it sells to hospitals for treating Medicare patients...
Last week an editorial in Peking's People's Daily explained that Mao had withdrawn from public view to "provide the scientific answer to the question of how to prevent the restoration of capitalism." The answer: "Turn everyone into a soldier." People's Daily exhorted the army "to turn China's factories, rural communities, schools, trading undertakings, service trades, and party and government organizations into great and truly revolutionary schools like the liberation army itself." How the army would go about providing the schools has not yet been spelled out. Perhaps the army, with its highly...
...works, the complex arrangement that started last week between the Miami Herald and the Miami News may well furnish newsmen with a new phrase-"Miami merger," meaning one that aims to prevent an actual merger...