Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hopewell officials claim they would have to spend $1 million to handle the crowds. So town fathers are considering 1) seeking a court injunction to prevent the state from making improvements at the park, and 2) suing both state and Federal Government for the extra money to accommodate the throngs. "We do not want to be cast as unpatriotic," says Township Committeeman Christopher Bannister, "but we resent the idea that we should give a birthday party for the nation and have to foot the bill...
...their stay is not extended, the possibility of hostilities will increase sharply. Assad, who is clearly keeping a negotiating door open, has indicated that he will not accept a limited Israeli withdrawal. Although he is anxious for an agreement, Assad obviously is taking a hard line to prevent Arab radicals from accusing him of appeasement. Rabin says that while Israel is willing to move back considerably from its present Golan lines, it will insist that strategically important Mount Hermon remain demilitarized...
...actually opposed them, knowing that they could serve as a pretext for rightist agitation against the Goncalves cabinet. The take-overs were carried out not by Communists or Socialists, but by workers supporting the "extreme left" and a policy of worker's control. Nor did the PCP prevent Republica and Renascenza from being returned to their "legal" owners--this decision was made by General Carvalho, an independent leftist then heading the Lisbon military garrison...
...quarter-horse fanatics swarm in by Cadillac and Continental Mark IV, jam the local airstrip with private jets, and fill every hotel room within a radius of 70 miles. Experience has taught the owners of bars and nightspots to hire armed guards to prevent gun fights...
Doctors have tried for years to prevent, or at least reduce, the ravages of St. Louis and other forms of insect-borne encephalitis. But the disease is difficult to treat or eradicate. No effective way has been developed to immunize people against it. Health officials are concentrating on spraying and swamp-drainage programs aimed at cutting down the number of mosquitoes, for the only known way to prevent encephalitis is to eliminate the pesky insects that transmit...