Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...section of the bill specifically prohibits removal of units without a permit for "rehabilitation, repair or improvement...in such a way as to prevent occupancy...
Second, steps are needed to prevent wasting and polluting. The obvious place to improve water use is on the farm. Agriculture consumes 80% of U.S. water, notably because farmers pump out more than they really need when irrigating...
...permit system, which governs renovation, and not the buying and selling of units, is an effort to avoid the legal obstacles that have hampered past attempts to prevent the spread of condominiums. Court challenges have already started for the new ordinance, though, and some condo developers predict the new rent control regulations will be outlawed before they're ever approved...
...fools; Harris even drags in a barking Germanic housekeeper (Inga Swenson) who would be more appropriate to Hogan 's Heroes. The restrained Guillaume is a refreshing antidote to the caricatured blacks one normally finds in TV comedy, but this series needs political bite and sharper writing to prevent its captive audience from nodding...
...True, a number agree with Zenith Chairman John Nevin, who argues, "I don't think you can casually stand aside and watch a company the size of Chrysler go down. You have to calculate the cost of Chrysler going under and ask if it is worth something to prevent that." But many more echo Clarence Barksdale, chairman of the First National Bank in St. Louis: "If you have any belief in the free-enterprise system, you have to let weak companies like Chrysler sink...