Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope parents who can't prevent their children from seeing the latest "big bopper" will try to explain that there are more worthy demands to be made of any art form than "Show it!" and that some aspects of human life have more value than their incidental contribution to even the most fantastic box office receipts...
...demonstrators during the turbulent late '60s when he was president of San Francisco State College. On the issues, he sounded more or less right wing and eccentric. Once he called for sending unarmed U.S. troops "who could be armed if necessary" to southern Africa under U.N. auspices to prevent a bloodbath there. He expressed open disdain for homosexuals and expressed misgivings about a California law prohibiting business collusion with the Arab boycott as an unwarranted interference with free enterprise. Among the more intriguing questions of the next few years: what the tradition-minded Senate will do to Hayakawa...
...Lawrence] Klein, has said. He says there will be no tax reduction because Mr. Carter is committed to the spending programs that are embraced in the Democratic platform. That's an honest position, but it's a position totally different from mine, and in order to prevent inflation as he spends more and has no tax reduction, he wants stand-by wage and price controls. I think that would be a disaster. The minute you get stand-by wage and price controls, people are going to be fearful, both labor and management, that we might have them imposed...
...eleven different things that ought to be done to hold down just a peaceful proliferation of plutonium and other atomic wastes, with a moratorium on the testing of all nuclear devices and with a prohibition against the sale of atomic fuel to countries that don't agree to prevent changing their waste into atomic explosives...
...mitigate such dependence-and prevent reporters from trying to put their candidate, and themselves, in the White House-more news organizations than ever are rotating correspondents from one candidate to the other. Campaign reporters have also covered the candidates' staffs and even the rest of the press more closely this year. The Washington Post's David Broder, for example, recently reported on the Carter press corps' fondness for wisecracking Trip Director Jim King, who, after reporters found no working telephones at several makeshift press rooms along the day's route, announced that "because of the inexperience...