Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Huntington also said Rockefeller's announcement might be designed to quell conservative Republican criticism about the dismissal of Schlesinger and to prevent Schlesinger from the becoming the right's "martyr" to the cause of military preparedness...
...seats which would be worth two points each. Or tickets could be awarded free to fans who had been rooting for the Red Sox the longest--applicants could be tested with such questions as, "Into which pitcher's head did catcher Bob Tillman throw a baseball in apptempting to prevent a steal of second base?" The free tickets could be financed by a windfall profits tax on Boston hotel and parking lot owners, Kenmore Square barkeeps, local bookmakers and, above all, the banks and multinationals that have lived off the sweat of Red Sox players and fans for so many...
Widener Library yesterday rejected as too slow equipment designed to prevent fraudulent book borrowing by holders of valid bursars cards who are no longer affiliated with the University, a library official said yesterday...
...stimulus early next year. Last week's committee votes indicate that Congress doubts that a spending ceiling would work and thinks the tax-cut stimulus would be too great. The Ways and Means Committee voted a $12.7 billion tax reduction; that would be just about enough to prevent the increase in withholding rates that would occur Jan. 1 if this year's temporary tax cuts were allowed to expire...
...Mayaguez feared that they might be beheaded or shot-or, at a minimum, held hostage for years like the crew of the Pueblo, captured by the North Koreans. The greatest immediate danger came from American airmen who were bombing and strafing Cambodian gunboats in an effort to prevent the crew from being taken to the mainland. Unfortunately, the crew had been transferred to one of those boats. Some were wounded by shrapnel in the attacks; all of them were gassed...