Word: preventing
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Utica's nine-member common council has vowed not to let Hanna make the same move with other city ser vices. The Teamsters, who represent the laid-off workers, have taken him to court to prevent him from contracting out the work. But during his first two-year term, Hanna fired one-third of the city employees, cut taxes twice, and turned a budget deficit into a surplus...
...then the Panamanian leader may be facing sizable pressures. To prevent the return of Arias, a political oligarch, the general is keeping a watchful eye on the former President's well-heeled supporters. Last month, after wealthy farmers and businessmen met to protest the government's agrarian and educational reforms, Torrijos retaliated by packing eleven of his critics off into exile in Ecuador. After a five-day slowdown by business leaders, Torrijos changed his mind and agreed to allow the exiles to return. Heavier pressure is coming from leftist university students who demand the speedy return...
Clarkson said she will try to develop a sense of "club and community" among the 150 registered HDC members, adding that the large number of shows produced by the Loeb tends to prevent cohesiveness within the group...
...yesterday's majority editorial, is a just and wise one. Aramco's hiring policies and the Saudi Arabian government's treatment of "undesirables" are offensive to Jews and non-Jews alike. But it is another thing to petulantly declare, as the majority statement did yesterday, that "financial necessities prevent us from even considering rejecting advertisements on a regular basis...
Clearly, investigating each advertiser that does business with The Crimson with respect to the issues alluded to earlier in this editorial would be far beyond our resources. Nor do we intend here to present ourselves as a paragon of virtue; financial necessities prevent us from even considering rejecting advertisements on a regular basis...