Word: preventing
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...Other Pulitzer awards-Public Service: the Boston Globe for its campaign to prevent the confirmation of Francis X. Morrissey as federal judge; National Reporting: Haynes Johnson of the Washington Evening Star; International Reporting: Peter Arnett of the Associated Press; Local Reporting, special: John A. Frasca of the Tampa Tribune; Editorial Writing: Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Cartoons: Don Wright of the Miami News; News Photography: Kyoichi Sawada of UPI; History: the late Perry Miller; Biography: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter; Poetry: Richard Eberhart; Nonfiction: Edwin Way Teale...
Every reasonably safe and sure method of contraception so far devised has required that either partner take preventive measures before intercourse. Last week two Yale University researchers reported the discovery of a "morning-after" pill that can prevent pregnancy when taken as long as six days afterward...
...sheer shortage of teachers and a system of tenure that ensures every professor his job for a lifetime prevent administrators from firing stale and incompetent teachers. Sociology Professor Robert Nisbet of the University of California's Riverside campus calls tenure "a blend of mystique and the sacred, as nearly impregnable a form of differential privilege as the mind of man has ever devised." The teaching profession, says the Danforth Foundation's Merrimon Cuninggim, "is the only profession that has no definition for malpractice." Even mental deterioration is no cause for dismissal, and, says Nisbet, "a single man can cause intellectual...
That may be enough to prevent the reader from getting off before the last stop. But when he does stay on to the end, there are the same questions that nagged him all along the route: "Where are we going? When do we get there...
Only a complete collapse in the running events today could prevent the Crimson thinclads, from winning the meet. After yesterday's field events Harvard leads Boston College and Northeastern 56-25 1/2.25...