Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will probably be completed by January, but extensive renovations underway at the rest of the Biological Laboratories on Divinity Ave. will prevent scientists from using the lab until several months later, Leahy said...
...doubt our willingness to launch counter-value weapons, inviting a Soviet retaliation and assuring mutual destruction. According to the argument, a limited Soviet attack could only be deterred by U.S. readiness and capability to retaliate against the missiles remaining in the Soviet arsenal and against once-used silos to prevent reloading. Backers of the MX say the missile is needed for such an option because current land-based missiles are too vulnerable to a first-strike and the air and sea weapons on the triad lack either sufficient accuracy or power to threaten a residual Soviet missile force...
Paul touches on an issue that disturbs many of the committee members. According to the Overseers' official statement of purpose, the visiting committees should "bring new ideas and fresh viewpoints to the University, to prevent provincialism, inbreeding and self-satisfaction and to serve as a liaison with the disciplines as represented outside of Harvard." Members feel Harvard ignored their attempts to serve this lead. Most committee members agreed that they were censored last year. Describing their reaction to the cancellation of the 1977 meeting, visitors used such phrases as "outraged," "shellshocked," or "more than a little annoyed." Norton resigned...
...Administration officials, such as Charles Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, fear the growth rate might drop to around 3% in the second half of next year-a pace too slow to prevent another rise in unemployment. Consumers, they think, cannot spend much more on cars, houses and other goods than they are now doing; if a slowdown is to be avoided, business spending must rise more than...
...very productive meeting in this room last week with labor, management, economists and Congressmen who are interested in the steel industry in our nation. The first statement that was made was by the steel executives: "We do not want quotas; we do not want trade barriers to prevent imports of steel. What we want is an enforcement of the American antidumping laws. What we want is predictability within the economy, within Government programs, in environmental protection measures and so forth. We just can't deal with an uncertainty...