Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Identimation system is designed to prevent people from lending their bursar's cards to people who are not on board plans...
...writers of the declaration see the proliferation of nuclear plants as a major threat to American liberties and international safety because they say safeguard procedures are inadequate to prevent terrorist theft of commercial reactor-produced plutonium...
...emergency package by a vote of 264 to 54, with all but five Tories abstaining The plan limits pay increases to a maximum of $13.20 a week, blocks the use of government funds to finance excessive wage settlements by the nationalized industries, and uses the price code to prevent private employers from passing on the cost of high settlements to the consumer. It also proposes strict cash limits on public spending...
Washington had no need of organizational charts or doorkeepers to prevent his staff from interfering with each other and becoming an irritation to him. Ford, wishing to replace Nixon's sealed chamber with an "open presidency," announced that nine designated advisers would have direct access to him at all times. But this attempt at simplification did not work out in practice; there were still too many people clamoring to see him, too many interruptions, too many demands on his time. The President still needs a kind of traffic cop, and Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld is entrusted with deciding...
Another anti-Israeli resolution will surface-and will probably be approved-at a meeting of nonaligned nations next month in Lima, Peru. Actually, it seems unlikely that Israel could be thrown out of the U.N. entirely, since the U.S. is committed to cast a Security Council veto to prevent that from happening. But Israel could be suspended from the General Assembly as South Africa was last year...