Word: preventing
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With his customary bluntness, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley summed up his side of the argument: "It is the obligation of Government to prevent its citizens from being shot. It is the obligation of Government, therefore, to eliminate the handgun, as much as possible, from our society...
...what she is interested in and what she wants....We don't look at their grades and board scores and often don't know them at the end of the interview. That might bias our impressions." Radcliffe also sets a standard half-hour time for each interview, intended to prevent the applicant from guessing at how interested the interviewer is in the candidate by the length of the interview...
...processing of an application for admission begins when a secretary in Byerly Hall goes through a set of elaborate procedures to prevent the application's misfiling and possible loss. The admissions office rarely loses a file, but occasionally a clerical error will result in a mistake that, if undetected, could have cost a candidate admission. "I can think of a couple of people who got reject letters who were admitted." Reardon said in an interview last week. "I would think that if we admitted a guy by mistake, we would have to live with...
Jewett said that Harvard was not violating the spirit of the Massachusetts law, since it was enacted to prevent discrimination against minorities, not to stop programs of affirmative action. He added that he "guesses that the Massachusetts law would not be held applicable" and that the "doesn't think it will ever be enforced...
Bitter Statements. Over the years she remained in the public eye; in the '50s she made several bitter statements about discrimination against her fellow blacks in the U.S. That did not prevent her from coming home periodically to perform in the U.S., notably for a four-concert Carnegie Hall series in 1973 in which she wore a spangled body-stocking and a towering headdress of flamingo-colored plumes. It seemed for a moment that the Folies-Bergere might rise again. "My whole life has been my art and the theater, and I really think the contact is necessary...