Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Workers yesterday completed a $6500 wrought-iron fence along the Mt. Auburn St. side of Quincy House which the Faculty financed in order to prevent trespassers from bothering house members, and from destroying the grounds, John E. Cady, assistant director of facilities, said yesterday...
...problem is more pressing than even that timetable suggests. The National Research Council in a report estimates-and the Bureau of Reclamation agrees-that 13 of the 330 dams in the West built and supervised by the bureau "require modification to prevent their failure" under heavy flooding conditions. The dams and the necessary repairs...
...switch cards, load dice or pinch bets pose a constant threat to profitability. So does the danger of thievery by employees: to discourage theft, cash from the company's 3,900 gaming tables and slot machines is counted under the watchful eye of closed-circuit television cameras. To prevent overstaffing in the casinos-another potential drain on profits-head counts are taken on the floor every four hours and used to compute the number of employees who will be called for each shift...
...jury, a House subcommittee and a New York State legislative office have been investigating the cartel's operations. They have turned up documents that tell an amazing tale of market rigging. The cartel-known as the Club to its members-was organized by the Canadian government, initially to prevent what in 1972 looked like an imminent drop in the price of one of Canada's most important export commodities. At the time, the world supply of uranium exceeded demand by 400%, according to some estimates, and if newly discovered deposits in Australia had been made available...
Since no new security measures instituted by Harvard could prevent what happened at Leverett House, the major thrust of the review is directed toward making sure that freshmen are aware of common sense security measures, Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, said yesterday...