Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race now is to prevent even a minor recurrence of such a tragedy. But in a place where the basic elected salary is $42,500 and the average white-collar Government worker gets a secure $16,000 a year, and millions of dollars can be manipulated for "comfort," the sense of urgency sometimes lags...
...including military experts-who have treated this subject, feel that Germany could have been easily defeated in 1938 by a joint military force from those countries which reneged on their commitment to Czechoslovakia. It seems clear that Lindbergh distorted the military situation in Europe, whether deliberately or not, to prevent America from joining or encouraging a war against Hitler...
People involved with the theater at Harvard reject--or ignore--original work all the time. Yet ask them why and you find yourself up against a virtual stonewall. But it is a wall of mismanagement and lack of perspective rather than a conscious effort to prevent original productions on principle, LaZebnik who has been through it all, claims that the problem is not really financial. "The main obstacle is the people here," he says, For even when he had a show. Teeth. that everyone agreed beforehand could not fail to make a considerable profit, he was ultimately forced to pull...
...They want to eliminate from the bottom of those elected until they get their "required" proportion. (Note: In my two elections as a student (HGSAS) I was the last man elected and I would have been eliminated under the new amendment.) The fact is, this new amendment would effectively prevent any student from a small or politically somnolent school from ever being elected--for instance, someone from the ETS or Harvard Divinity School, and yet, just such a person might have a salutary effect on the moral outlook of the Coop's officers...
...Bailyn and David S. Landes against any change in general exams as now constituted has more support than the objections of professors such as Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Patrick L.R. Higonnet '58 and Giles Constable '50 that the senior faculty has a responsibility to take another look at generals and prevent another 1973 from recurring...