Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another brief calm ensued until two weeks ago, when Bessell, hounded by British reporters at his home in California, undermined most of the Thorpe defense. He admitted that his blackmail tale had been a "coverup ... to prevent Scott from standing up in court and making statements about Jeremy. The whole idea was to make Scott shut his mouth...
...FACULTY'S DECISION to permit students to cross-register at MIT for non-credit participation in ROTC was the right one. The real issue here is whether the University should prevent students from doing whatever they choose in their spare time. Following the trend of the last decade toward permitting students greater freedom in their private lives, the Faculty decided that Harvard should not interfere with anyone who finds ROTC valuable...
...that Harvard should prohibit enrollment in ROTC on moral grounds leads to the conclusion that it should extend moral judgements to other student activities. If the United States Army is evil then the federal government that controls it is likewise evil. But no one would suggest that Harvard should prevent students from taking summer internships in the federal government. If Harvard is obliged to resist "complicity" in the evil allegedly perpetrated by the American military, shouldn't it also proscribe students from government employment, campaign work for pro-military political candidates, and any number of other supposedly immoral activities...
...neighboring state delegations in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Jersey. Together with New York, they stand to have at least 300 uncommitted delegates, out of 1,130 needed to nominate. Rocky's aim is to keep those delegates in Ford's camp or, if the President appears to be losing, prevent them from stampeding to Reagan?and then use them as bargaining chips for his still unclear purposes...
...replacement had been a major leftist condition for negotiations to end the 13-month-old civil war between Christians and Moslems, which has taken 16,000 lives. But fearing that Elias Sarkis, the Syrian-backed candidate, would win the election, Moslem forces launched a last-ditch effort to prevent the voting...