Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...searing instant of destruction occurred, with no warning and no explanation. It turned New York City's La Guardia Airport into a bloody ruin, killed eleven people and injured 51 others. Appalled by the act, President Gerald Ford ordered an immediate study by federal officials to try to prevent such tragedies from happening again (see box). There was immediate speculation that some terrorist group must be involved, and that what has come to seem a worldwide epidemic of political terrorism had brought its contagion to America's greatest city. But in the absence of the usual boasts...
Ivory Coast and Senegal. His goals: 1) to prevent any more governments from recognizing the M.P.L.A. before the summit and 2) to round up an O.A.U. majority for a resolution opposing all foreign interference in Angola. He had no trouble convincing Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko, who has at least 1,000 army regulars fighting with the F.N.L.A. Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast and Senegal's Leopold Senghor also went along. Washington also persuaded Ethiopia to hold off recognition at least until after the summit, on the ground that as host to the O.A.U., it should...
...they were just front men for the oligarchs behind them and, well, I wasn't going to be a front man for anyone. I wanted to reform and bring about a new society." He insists that even opposition leaders urged him to impose martial law in order to prevent chaos...
...Ambiguity: "Corticosteroids, antimalarial drugs and other agents may impede degranulation, because of their ability to prevent granule membranes from rupturing, to inhibit ingestion or to interfere with the degranulation mechanism...
...institutions need to be created, the report states, to prevent countries from nationalizing foreign investments (as many Third World states did unto American multinationals) and to govern other multinational corporations. They cite as a growing problem the "global scope of operations of multinational firms, exceeding the jurisdictions of any individual government...