Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John, a senior from Chappaqua, N.Y., playing his first game since he damaged knee ligaments September 29, started a wing-and-a-prayer aerial assault on the Dartmouth secondary. With the Big Green hanging back to prevent the longainer, St. John drilled two straight passes to Richie Horner...
...decided nothing short of decisive action would do: "Upon Volcker's return to Washington, following a brief appearance at an International Monetary Fund conference in Belgrade, he immediately instructed his staff to draw up a list of options open to the Fed. The short-term goal would be to prevent a further dollar slide abroad, but long term the objective would be to puncture the inflation psychology of the nation as a whole. As many as 20 staffers were ultimately involved in the brain-storming sessions, and economists from the Fed's New York operations were shuttling...
...argues that its new system will enable it to keep a day-to-day eye on what really matters?the money supply?and to feed just enough new cash and credit into the economy to prevent a crunch. Yet something very much like a credit crunch may be the only thing that can break the nation's addiction to easy money. The inflation psychology of spending to beat price rises is becoming a part of the national psyche...
...fight." Rice crops have been destroyed and planting new fields has become dangerous. Pol Pot's forces harass farmers in areas controlled by Viet Nam, while the Vietnamese do their best to prevent food supplies from getting to the Khmer Rouge...
Inevitably, there are gaps and errors in The Man Who Kept the Secrets; too many people have died, too many documents have been destroyed, too many decisions never made it to paper--and too many persons still have reason to prevent the whole truth from surfacing. But Powers has compiled an impressively documented and reasonably well-presented litany of power and its abuses; his book--a most thorough work but by no means the last word on the subject, will provoke, frighten and outrage even those already jaded by the sleaziness and corruption of Watergate. Richard Helms...