Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kelly said that fighting racing in Boston schools is urgent because "the near success of those who would prevent integration of this city's schools has become a rallying point" for anti-busing forces in other cities...
...represent them vowed continued war, Lenin said that the deserters were voting with their feet. Most American politicians would have indignantly rejected that idea--its most obvious application last week was to the Saigon troops who deserted, fled, or went over to the NLF--but this did not prevent them from seizing triumphantly on the phrase. Nevertheless, no reporter in Indochina attributed the mass flight to the simple fear of Communism the politicians cited. Instead, reporters spoke of a combination of factors--fear of renewed American bombing, fear of NLF "reprisals," fear of looters from the Saigon army...
...rules of mental decency, and clothe his personal idiosyncrasies in collectively acceptable generalities, an authentic ignoramus remains quite indecently free to speak as he feels. This prospect cheers me...since I can't tell you what I know (or rather what I don't know there's nothing to prevent me from trying to tell...
...believe that any Congressmen can look at the suffering of the Cambodian people and vote to withhold aid from these oppressed people. What difference should it make if we like President Lon Nol or not? If we help in every way possible to prevent the collapse of the Cambodian government and it still falls, at least we won't have the blood of all the innocent victims on our hands...
Labor leaders, however, are fighting back. The teachers union threatens to sue the city to prevent an increase in workloads, and the policemen want to cancel their agreement for five payless work days. Meanwhile, Beame is also struggling to squeeze more money out of Albany and Washington and is lobbying for the creation of a federal agency to buy municipal bonds at low interest rates. If he is not successful on these fronts, the city will be forced to take other measures. Among the possibilities: increasing various city taxes, raising the subway fare from 350 and charging tuition at city...