Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think Arafat represents the Palestinians," says Sarid, disagreeing with Yafeh. "There is no other leader who is able to represent them. Maybe right after the Six-Day War local Palestinian leaders could have arisen. But we did everything to prevent it, and now, even the other potential Palestinian leaders admit that Arafat and the PLO are the only true representatives...
...further parking restrictions are passed by Congress they would impose difficulties on University employees, Gilfix said. However, he said that will the prevent restrictions there is no excess demand for parking spaces and there are no employee parking waiting lists...
...change things then, and we did. Most of us continued to communicate as a group until we returned to Washington last month. We had an identity. The mere fact that committee chairmen presented themselves before us was a sign that the seniority system, party loyalty notwithstanding, could no longer prevent accountability...
Bedsores, or decubitus ulcers, plague many patients who must remain immobile for long periods. But a device now in use at the Jersey City Medical Center seems to prevent such painful and potentially debilitating sores from developing. Drs. Joseph Timmes, Paul Harper and Joyce Rocko report in American Family Physician that they placed 48 patients on hospital-bed-size water mattresses. Of the 24 patients who already had bedsores, 71% were completely healed after staying on waterbeds for an average of 21.9 days. None of the other 24 patients, who were sore-free but considered sore-prone, developed decubitus ulcers...
...paced by their drivers, who must take care not to burn them out in heavy slush. When a burst of speed is needed, drivers sometimes "pump" (give a series of short one-legged kicks in the snow) to aid their animals. Some drivers hold a "snub line" to prevent the animals from running off without them in the event of an overturn...