Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RECOMMENDATIONS. To prevent future CIA abuses, the commission made 30 recommendations. The three most important...
...city's short-term borrowing and receive all city sales tax revenue so as to make sure that the bonds it issued would be repaid. City officials balked at such a surrender of their fiscal authority. The question is whether Big Mac will be established in time to prevent the city from defaulting on $792 million in notes that fall due this week. True to the politics of bluff and brinkmanship that characterize New York, the solution was not likely to come until five minutes before midnight on D-day-or even five minutes after...
...issue remains: does anyone have the right to prevent the circulation of ideas when these ideas are recognized as dangerous and destructive? In many ways, the real significance of the "Birth of a Nation" crisis was the split it forced between liberals and radicals. The liberals argue that freedom of speech is an absolute principle and that the tactics of the protesters amounted to repression, while the blacks who stopped the film and those who agreed with them argue that the act of presenting the film must be seen in its "proper historical context" and that the protesters' actions...
...Communism. What could another party offer? Less, yes; more, no. We have really attained the fringes of the most advanced socialism without its pink color. Everybody will have a share, enough for a decent kind of living. The big fortunes will be taxed more and more. But you cannot prevent differences in any society, Communist or nonCommunist. We are doing more than any other country I know, without being pinkish. Until now we could not afford [to legalize the Communist Party] because of our geographical location. When we establish the solid society that we are planning, we might eventually reconsider...
...spend up to $1 trillion in the next ten years to develop additional sources of energy that would make the industrial world independent of the oil cartel. Yet, as Kissinger conceded, there is nothing that the consuming nations can do in the next several years to prevent oil producers from raising prices whenever they want to. Indeed, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may hike world prices by as much as $2 per bbl. in September-a move that would give the American economy a vicious double jolt if Congress and the President let all U.S. price controls...