Word: preventing
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...extending the powers of his presidency in order to implement his program of cowboy reforms and antagonizing important yankee interests in the process. He attempted to turn the clock back to the pre-FDR era by making sizable cutbacks in welfare allocations, sometimes even impounding funds to prevent the implementation of congressional actions. The Establishment thought these minimal forms of income redistribution were necessary to preserve social order, Sale argues, while Nixon preferred to "guarantee domestic tranquility" through overtly repressive means. The expansion of FBI domestic surveillance, abuse of the Internal Revenue Service, and the creation of a special White...
Peking has also changed the way it does business. In the xenophobic past it avoided all foreign economic entanglements and, to prevent trade deficits, practiced a punishing austerity. Now, Peking reasons, like other nations it can borrow the money it needs for investment. Result: despite its oil revenues, China's trade deficit shot up from $80 million in 1973 to $1 billion last year, a figure that foreign economists feel is still prudently low. "The economy is not doing spectacularly," says an American economist in Hong Kong, "but it is getting down to stability-and stability is an achievement...
...deal with a modern complicated democratic state, like Italy and France, it is not directly in our power to prevent it. It must be the responsibility of the governments concerned to prevent it. The alienation from government cannot be remedied primarily...
...PRESIDENTIAL assassination attempts within 17 days last month have once again made handgun confiscation a major national issue. It is, of course, classic naivete to assume that banning handguns will prevent a presidential assassin from obtaining one. Nor will banning handguns be any more effective in achieving any of the proposal's other aims...
Kaysen withdrew four days before he was scheduled to give the first of the lectures in 1973 saying that "important business" would prevent him from speaking...