Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the week, Ullman quietly tried to negotiate a compromise with Ford to avoid a floor fight on the bill. Increasingly, it looked as if the President had enough Republican and conservative Democratic votes in the Senate to prevent an override of his veto of the tariff deferral. Even if they lacked the necessary votes, Republicans were prepared to filibuster and try to pick up enough support to prevent cloture. Ullman felt that the Democrats could live with the $1 bbl. oil increase if the President would hold off on the subsequent hikes...
...EMBARGOES: If a war takes place, anything is possible. The important thing is to prevent war. But Arabs did not invent this boycott weapon. How many years have you employed a boycott against Cuba? I'm not an advocate for Castro, but you have imposed this weapon on a very small country. I am not saying that with a war an oil boycott would be inevitable...
Saudi Sabotage. First, several battalions of airborne troops would drop on Ghawar and Dhahran to prevent the Saudis from blowing up oil refineries, storage tanks and producing wells. After securing the Dhahran airstrip-built by the U.S. and thus familiar-they would wave in the rest of the division. A swarm of C-5As, C-141s and C-130s would unload not only back-up artillery and infantry but also engineers who would get the oilfields working again. Three days after the airborne assault, the Marine units would come ashore by helicopter and landing craft...
...What will prevent patronage of the nearest hamburger stand on meatless days, or eating twice as much meat on the days, meat is served?" the newsletter said. "Having one hamburger instead of two provides the taste satisfaction and nutritional qualities of meat, yet uses only half the meat...
Harvard officials say they may lay off seven of the 17 BTU members who work here by the end of the year--but the BTU's arrangements are apparently an attempt not to prevent the layoffs but to get rights to more equipment...