Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similarly vague in explaining how he might succeed (where Ford has had trouble) in convincing Moscow-and the Pentagon-that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. should begin reducing their nuclear arsenals. It is also uncertain how Carter, in practical terms, would fulfill his promise to do more than Ford to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons...
...sales abroad; it penetrates and corrupts the internal politics of major allies of the United States; our own government admits that this fraudulent and corrosive behavior has taken place outside its knowledge and control; and, when a congressional committee proposes to expose the sordid facts and legislate to prevent their repetition, we are told that to do so would endanger the security of the United States...
Legal efforts to block the construction of a high school complex on the site of the park behind the Cambridge Public Library will continue, even though a preliminary injunction to prevent the school's construction was denied, Cambridge lawyer Robert LaTremouille said yesterday...
Even if the land were declared not to be a park, the presence of a playground on the tract would prevent the land from being used for building unless the playground land was declared excess by the courts...
...work as a salesman for his father, gravitated to movies first as an actor, then-quite quickly-as a producer. Eventually he produced Fellini's first two international hits, La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, stealing a portion of the latter's negative to prevent the director's including a long monologue that De Laurentiis was convinced slowed the picture down...