Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many in the city fear that when the Block falls, its residents will simply reestablish themselves all over town. "If the bulldozers come, the Block will scatter just like the whores do," said a veteran nightclub owner, Maurice Cohen. "They'll move upstairs and downstairs with you." To prevent such an occurrence, civic leaders have given thought to transplanting the entire Block onto a showboat, or a nearby pier, or, possibly, onto a rat-infested island known as Fort Carroll...
...truce between Nigeria and rebellious Biafrans. Rather, the Labor government, which has consistently supported Gowon and supplied arms to his troops, feels that it needs to restudy the Nigerian situation in view of growing attacks in Britain against the policy. By backing Gowon, the government had hoped to prevent further Balkanization of Africa and offset the influence of the Soviet Union, which is also arming Nigeria...
...declared that some of Caron's testimony required the Government to disclose that it had hypnotized him. The Government must make this admission, Friendly indicated, whenever there is a "significant possibility" that it will affect the verdict. The ruling, one of the first of its kind, should help prevent abuse of hypnosis by overzealous prosecutors. "If the price of our decision should be the ultimate escape of a guilty man rather than the vindication of an innocent one," said the judge, "this is the kind of case where that price is worth paying...
...talk of a slowdown. Last week the Commerce Department reported that factory orders for durable goods-an important indicator of future economic activity-rose by $1 billion in February to a record level of $31 billion. Even a small decline in auto assemblies last month did not prevent industrial production from setting a new record for the fourth month in a row. Recovering from a January slump, personal income increased $5.3 billion in February to a record annual rate of $491 billion. Most of that jump came from substantial wage increases, which spur businessmen to invest in labor-saving...
...comes, once the abnormalities and injustices which have so far served as the stepping stones to the attainment of their power and wealth are removed, they are certain to lose their foothold. This, as far as President Thieu and his sympathizers are concerned, is comparable to physical death. To prevent peace from coming, Theiu must therefore do at least two things: 1) to eliminate those Vietnamese how want peace, and 2) somehow, in his own words, as I quoted before, to "make it impossible for the United States to withdraw its support...