Word: preventing
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...event of another oil embargo, he would declare "economic war" on the Arab bloc--tend to belie his more thoughtful positions on fiscal and foreign policy. His rationale for the first proposal lies in his preference for putting welfare burdens onto the states--rather than the federal government--to prevent future New York City's. The motive for Carter's wishful thinking on the Mid-East is probably more pragmatic: he needs to take an increasingly tough stance in support of Israel to head off Scoop Jackson in Florida, the state where only Carter stepped forward to challenge Wallace...
Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday that this crackdown was symbolic of "a last fight by the remaining fascists to prevent change" and added that it would do little to stave off an eventual collapse of the right...
...wangle the loan, which was necessary to prevent default, city and state officials were forced to take drastic actions that went against many a past promise. For the most highly taxed city in the country, the state legislature passed a $200 million increase that includes a 25% raise in the city income tax as well as higher levies on corporations, banks, barber shops, beauty and massage parlors and inheritances. Also approved was a three-year moratorium on the redemption of $1.6 billion in city short-term debt held by individuals...
...News' editorials on the city's financial plight as more cogent and less partisan than those of the Times and the Post, which he felt too often got bogged down in anti-banker diatribes. Says O'Neill: "We try to practice what I call 'preventive journalism.' Newspapers can no longer stand by and record crises as they occur. We have to identify future problems and perhaps prevent them...
...potato chip at all. Some companies, such as Detroit's Superior Potato Chips Inc., Chicago-based Jays Foods Inc., and Wise Foods of Berwick, Pa. (a division of Borden Co.), have run ads ridiculing Pringle's as an ersatz product. The Potato Chip Institute International tried to prevent snacks like Pringle's from being labeled potato chips...