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Word: preventing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a strike could cost the medical men heavily in public support, since the New York plan is a good one. It will not, to be sure, turn back the clock and reduce the costs of malpractice insurance, but it could help prevent malpractice. The law will make it easier for doctors to discipline colleagues against whom charges of malpractice are proved. This will not only help responsible physicians but will also protect the patients against the real problem of bungled medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES: Malpractice Mess | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

SENIORITY SYSTEM. Reducing the authority of arbitrary and aging committee chairmen was generally applauded, though a number of panelists cautioned that this has created a dispersal of power and a leadership vacuum that could work to the advantage of a strong President. To prevent this, panelists argued, either the party leaders in both chambers must act more forcefully or the unwieldy party caucus must assert itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME CONGRESSIONAL PANEL: Big Changes and a New Self-Confidence | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...headquarters in Bonn last week and ordered that an armored car guard the chancellery building day and night. The concrete and steel Stuttgart courthouse is encircled by concentric chain link, barbed-wire and wooden fences. A steel net has been strung across the roof to keep off explosives and prevent helicopter rescue attempts. Hidden cameras monitor every inch of the floodlit complex, and more than 500 policemen share the guard duty. Roadblocks manned by submachine-gun-carrying police seal off the entrances to unauthorized visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Spectacle in Stuttgart | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...informed the committee Monday night that his training schedule for an upcoming heavyweight title fight would prevent him from fulfilling a previous commitment to speak on Class Day, has agreed to reschedule his appearance at Harvard to June...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Committee Has Difficulties Finding Replacement for Ali | 5/30/1975 | See Source »

...black marketeers who got to the foreigner first. On the day after we arrived, August 24 the highest dollar exchange was 32 escudos--the official rate is 25 to the dollar. But on September 16, the day before we left, the white counter-coup had failed to prevent the independence of Portugal's colony on the east coast of Africa, Mozambique, and one dollar was worth 50 or more black market escudos...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Sun Never Sets on Empire | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

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