Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overcome these difficulties, four groups-the right-wing Hindu Jana Sangh, the conservative Indian People's Party, the Socialist Party and the Old Congress Party-announced that they will form a united front and run a single slate of candidates to prevent fragmentation of the opposition vote. Said Desai: "We are interested only in getting a thumping majority." But the betting is that Indira Gandhi will once again do the thumping...
This year, with a budget of $7 million to maintain order, Indian authorities have erected control towers so that they can survey the milling crowds and prevent disasters like the 1954 stampede in which 513 people died. They have ordered that all pilgrims must be inoculated against cholera, and 1,000 workers have been assigned just to spray antiseptics. Beggars have been banned. All day and all night blaring hymns on the loudspeaker system are interrupted by announcements about missing people (2,000 of them...
...institution. Harvard is run by a bureaucratic dictatorship, properly fueled and oiled by corporate money, revealing in its internal organization and government its true nature. What is needed is not just momentary attention to the protests over Fox's plan, but the creation of the proper institutional tools to prevent such outrageous attempts to be repeated: complete student and worker participation in all decisions that affect their lives...
...most serious, third-degree burns, involving loss of all the layers, skin will not regenerate. To prevent loss of body heat and fluids until the patient is ready for grafts, the wound needs temporary biological dressings; overhead heat shields are also used. Doctors apply either pigskin (which closely resembles human skin) or skin from cadavers. Artificial skins have not yet proved successful, and doctors are only beginning to take matching skin from siblings and parents. But M.I.T.'s Ioannis V. Yannas, together with Shriners' Dr. John F. Burke, may soon try a promising material made of polysaccharides...
...earthquake, J. Eugene Haas and Dennis S. Mileti of the University of Colorado's Institute of Behavioral Science interviewed hundreds of public officials, businessmen, journalists and families in earthquake-prone areas of California. Their conclusion, made public in a 40-page study: unless planning is begun now to prevent it, "the first credible earthquake prediction ... will exact a very high price in economic dislocation and social disruption...