Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delicate Refusal. But two unions representing state employees went to court to prevent any of their $7.2 billion pension funds from being invested in the tottering city. The court ruled that the legislature did not have the authority to order Comptroller Levitt to buy the bonds. The court did not forbid him, however, from buying them if he wanted to. Despite pleas from Governor Hugh Carey and Mayor Abraham Beame, Levitt showed no such desire...
...thinks that early woman struck "the risky bargain" of accepting domination by a single male to prevent wholesale rape, thus leading to a rudimentary mate-protectorate and then to patriarchy. Women became property, acquired either through raiding other tribes or purchasing a daughter from a father in one's own tribe. Rape entered the law as a property crime. Brownmiller insists that to this day the law treats rape primarily as a violation of male rights of possession. Today rape is aggression against the female's "owner" as well as a reminder of male dominance...
...American paychecks. If this year's tax cuts are not extended, a typical worker will find his weekly paycheck reduced by $3 to $10 after Jan. 1. In fact the tax cut will have to be increased from about $8 billion to $12 billion a year to prevent even a slight rise in withholding rates. Reason: the cuts now in effect began May 1, so for 1975 twelve months of withholding-rates reductions were squeezed into eight months...
...objective is to prevent the people of this country from getting economically raped...
Even today, with agriculture as primitive in Bangladesh as it is, there is no technological reason why people should starve. Enough food to feed the nation is almost certainly being produced; two age old social constraints, however, prevent it from getting into hungry mouths. The first is the income distribution. Rich people always use more food than they have to, especially in places where fat is a status symbol. Every pound of meat an American peace corpsman or Bengali professor buys takes seven pounds of grain off the market. This, of course, pushes the poorest of the poor below subsistence...