Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter propose letting higher taxes rather than higher prices discourage energy consumption? The obvious answer: to prevent oil companies from making windfall profits. In his press conference, he noted that the oil companies, under his plan, will have to report their profits in each geographical area and for each type of fuel they produce. That, he said, might well disclose anticompetitive practices that the Government could then use to prosecute the oil companies under the antitrust laws, and perhaps avoid any necessity of breaking up the companies or making them get out of non-oil energy fields, such as coal...
...Prime Minister were to step down under pressure, it is not certain that the country would get a democratically chosen successor. The military, which apparently still backs Bhutto, has taken over control of Pakistan twice before; it would not surprise anyone if it did so once again to prevent all-out civil...
...conduits for change. With the publication of The Rape Of Our Neighborhoods, perhaps America will start responding to Worthy's prose. If they do they might discover the truth in the words of Kenneth B. Clark: "The Bill Worthys of our society provide the moral fuel necessary to prevent the flickering conscience of our society from going...
...first proposals would prevent the number of concentrations from growing and the second would make visiting committee reviews more thorough but less frequent. Visiting committees now often stay on campus for only one or two days yearly...
...what can we do to prevent all this...