Word: preventing
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...responsibility of the Federal Government instead of the states, with each voter carrying a permanent registration number, much the way Americans already have Social Security, draft and credit numbers. Says he: "In the future, electronic scanners at polling places will very probably be able to identify voters, or prevent repeats and unauthorized ballots, by a split-second survey of a voter's thumb...
Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, felt that some restrictive monetary measures may be needed to prevent an inflationary spiral...
...oppose the requirement make what we consider an equally valid assumption: that Harvard students are perceptive and industrious enough to realized their own needs and to meet them voluntarily. Dean Glimp has provided an even more telling argument. He stated last year that a general calculus requirement would prevent the Admissions Committee from accepting candidates who display outstanding talents in the arts or humanities but who have almost no aptitude for mathematics. We thus urge that the CEP plan be approved on its own merits and not as a first step toward a college-wide math obligation...
...prevent more killings...
...Congress should pass a law providing that if a person commits a crime punishable by state courts -- such an intimidation, injury or murder -- while intending to prevent someone from exercising rights guaranteed by the Constitution or federal laws (which is a federal crime), he should be liable to prosecution in the federal courts for both crimes. At present, federal courts can convict the murderer of a civil rights worker only of depriving the worker of his constitutional rights, for which the maximum penalty is ten years in prison. Under the proposed statute, such a killer could be given a sentence...