Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fisher pointed out that computer-made maps could be extremely useful in nearly every field where visual display of data is possible. He said that researchers often compile mountains of data but limitations of time and money generally prevent them from converting the data into maps. It is practically impossible to comprehend spatially distributed data when it is presented in tables, he added...
Until the Soviet Union succeeds in tolerating some measure of artistic freedom it will continue to stifle creative expression within the USSR, and to prevent free and open cultural exchange with nations abroad...
Fortunately for the Transit Authority, the final decision will probably be made by another judge of the State Supreme Court. This did not prevent Say pol from taking the Transit Authority to task for "yielding and submitting to illegally extorted demands" by the un ion and permitting it to obtain a heavy "ransom from eight million citizens" of New York City. "Submission today," the judge went on to say, "to this un lawful misconduct under the guise of civil disobedience, grinding into the dirt the civil rights and liberties of the city's millions, is craven servility and could...
Increasing centralization and the pressure of larger orders now prevent most publishers from supplying retailers on an emergency basis. Before next semester, the Coop wants to adjust to the change -- but it will need more support from within the University. It will certainly need more co-operation from the large number of professors who send their reading lists to the Coop less than two weeks before registration and from those who send them incomplete but never bother to notify the Coop of additions. It must be able to obtain course enrollment figures soon after each term begins, so that...
While insisting that divorce be made a more rational process, most marriage experts also believe that many of the divorces that now take place can be prevented. One of the most effective, though not yet widespread, ways of helping to prevent divorce is the conciliation court. Eighteen states have already set up more than three dozen such courts, many of which try to mend marriages with the aid of full-time staff psychologists and social workers. The courts have an overall record of intact marriages in 33% of the cases voluntarily brought before them. They try to get the couple...