Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notably Chicago's First National, New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Atlanta's National Bank of Georgia. Some 30 bank examiners and half a dozen lawyers so far have pored over more than 5,000 pages of documents. At night, guards patrol the offices to prevent any theft or tampering with evidence. Some portions of the report were being written last week, but the bulk of the investigation was still being pursued, under the direction of John G. Heimann, 48, the deceptively youthful comptroller...
...girded for yet another round of violence, punctuated by what the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army had said would be a "Jubilee bomb blitz to remember." Instead, a force of British soldiers, police regulars and reservists-beefed up to 32,000 for the occasion-managed to prevent any major bloodshed and allowed the Queen to turn her first visit in eleven years into at least a show of sovereignty over the most troubled province of her realm...
...suspected terrorists and thus served to heighten sectarian tensions in Ulster before the program was abandoned in 1975. The day after Elizabeth's departure was another big date in Ulster's calendar of conflict: the anniversary of the closing of Londonderry's gates in 1689 to prevent the forces of James II, the Catholic King of England, from entering. It was rioting touched off by this anniversary in 1969 that prompted the British to send in the army-which has been tied down in Ulster ever since. But the Queen could not be blamed for the timing...
...Diving reflex" and chill waters can prevent drowning deaths...
...past there has been no safe and effective treatment, but now a remedy seems at hand. A research team headed by Dr. Charles Alford of the University of Alabama in Birmingham reported last week it has successfully tested a drug that will not only prevent death in most cases of herpes encephalitis but also radically reduce the incidence of neurological damage in survivors. "Even with its limitations," said Alford, "this represents a major breakthrough in antiviral therapy...