Word: preventing
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...cast. Democrats demanded a recount, and to their delight, Durkin turned out to be ten votes ahead. A state review board dominated by Republicans found Wyman had won by a mere two votes. The issue was then carried to the Senate, but Republicans effectively filibustered to prevent the Democratically controlled body from seating Durkin. He finally yielded and agreed to Republican demands for a new election...
Smashed Windshield. Some violence has gone unreported. The only incident involving police gunfire during Louisville's first tense week of busing was ignored by the Louisville press. Indeed, before school started the Louisville media had adopted a set of voluntary guidelines which were designed to prevent an exacerbation of tension. The violence occurred when Frank Prell, 34, a modestly prosperous white contractor, was stopped by state troopers in riot gear as he headed across town in his 1969 pickup to visit his mother. Without explanation, they began beating on his fenders with their nightsticks and smashed his windshield. After...
...researchers, is a set of 1962 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act-passed in response to the thalidomide disaster that produced thousands of deformed babies throughout Europe. These amendments, which aimed at assuring that drugs were effective, and earlier amendments setting standards for safety, were designed to prevent the introduction of any drugs that might be toxic or cause birth defects or cancer. But they have had other, less desirable effects as well...
...Gulf of Mexico, which has been dotted by U.S. drilling and production platforms for a generation. The North Sea soon turned into a stern teacher. Laying pipelines, for example, called for bigger, more sophisticated and more expensive barges than any ever used in the Gulf. Because choppy seas often prevent tanker loading, some method for temporarily storing great quantities of oil at sea was called for. The result: CONDEEP- a giant concrete-reinforced production platform with huge storage tanks. A Norwegian innovation, two CONDEEPs have been put in place in the British sector; each cost $300 million...
...straightened somewhat by an operation and a year in the hospital left her with only the slightest limp, Theresa always retained a sense of her illness as something shameful. Her parents treated her differently than their other children, both pitying her and feeling guilty for not being able to prevent her illness. Theresa felt as though her mother was constantly reproaching her for not being so pretty and athletic as her younger sister. These attitudes on the part of her parents, though unspoken, contributed to her self-consciousness about her limp...