Word: preventing
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Wary Legislators. As an interim reform, the Scranton administration last week pressed state legislators to raise magistrates' salaries, require new ones to be lawyers, cut the present number to 18, and drastically alter the case-assignment system to prevent collusion. Even that modest package is given scant chance of passage. As a troubled Scranton aide points out: "These men are probably the most powerful politicians in the state. They do favors for people every day, and state legislators are scared to death of them...
...both divine revelation and the "very dignity of human nature," and that in religious affairs no one can be forced to act against his conscience. It states further that the state must protect this human right, and that governments can neither impose any religion on an individual nor prevent him from joining or leaving any religious group...
Paterson will have the power to stop any experiment he feels is not being conducted safety. But he predicted in an interview Sunday that his new post -- and new safety rules which are now being codified -- will not help prevent explosions like the one that shattered the CEA experimental hall July...
Present evidence indicates that it will be easier to prevent an explosion in the future if the bubble chamber is housed separately, Collins said. "Keeping hydrogen from spilling will be a simple matter," he explained. "That's not the point. The problem is, if a foolish thing like that does happens, can we keep it from causing a serious explosion? In a separate building, I think...
...church, for example, in its revivalistic fervor betrays an almost hysterical ambition to prevent disunity among denominations. The people's hearts, once joined in Christian love, might battle successfully the sophistries of European religion (based ominously on both intellect and tyranny); the American churches, once laced with enough committees and missions, might achieve unity even out of extreme diversity; and a united America, presumably, would usher the rest of the world into the millennium. "The event of the century", Miller ironically notes, the revival of 1857-58, "lifted the populace to its most grandiose conception of unity just before slavery...