Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing conflict, members of the Administration have criticized Burns' policies on four occasions, and the hard-nosed Fed chairman has replied in kind. In his view, business profits are too low, and something must be done to increase them to prevent economic recovery from petering out. Two weeks ago he declared: "Anyone who wonders why capital spending has been so halting or why stock prices have behaved so poorly for so long would be well advised to study this dismal record of what American business has been earning." Indeed, a Wall Street Journal survey last week found that analysts...
Helms' difficulties date back to 1973, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was weighing his nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Iran. Twice the committee quizzed him in closed sessions about covert U.S. efforts to prevent Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile in 1970. Twice Helms in effect lied...
Earlier this year the FBI botched an attempt to blackmail a Soviet student into becoming an informant. Soviet and American officials have tried to prevent publicity, but TIME has learned that the incident provoked protests from the Soviet embassy in Washington and generated tensions between the FBI and State Department that are still unresolved...
...union is also seeking to restrict the hospitals' ability to bring in consulting firms to fight the union. Working with State Rep. Barney Frank, Shea has succeeded in having introduced in the State legislature a bill that would prevent hospitals from using federal funds like Medicaid to pay firms like Modern Management Methods. Beth Israel did so during an unsuccessful unionizing drive in 1974, and a State regulatory agency for hospitals required that the hospital return the money to Medicaid because the expense was not related to patient care. The union's bill has encountered some resistance in the legislature...
...students fail to sign the checks in time, they will be able to reapply for aid, Ruth Galen, a financial aid staff memeber, said yesterday. However, if the new loan did not come through in time for spring term registration, outstanding term bills could prevent students from registering...