Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard victory was the tenacious forechecking and backchecking by the Crimson forwards. Even when the Huskies did manage to get the puck into the Harvard zone, there always seemed to be a Harvard forward back to prevent any three-on-two breaks for Northeastern...
...university and thereby asserting a claim to its rights and privileges, members also acknowledge the existence of certain obligations upon themselves and their fellows. Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed...
...have considered the opposing argument that behavior which violates these social and ethical considerations should be made subject to formal sanctions, and the argument that such behavior entitles others to prevent speech they might regard as offensive. Our conviction that the central purpose of the university is to foster the free access of knowledge compiles us to reject both of these arguments. They assert a right to prevent free expression. They rest upon the assumption that speech can be suppressed by anyone who deems it false or offensive. They deny what Justice Holmes termed "freedom for the thought that...
Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed...
...added: "I think the public has to have a reassurance that we are not going to permit America to be strangled to death." In a speech to the Economic Club of New York, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger insisted that it was "within the power" of the U.S. to prevent such strangulation. Schlesinger also reaffirmed U.S. support for Israel in the event of another Middle East war. He predicted that such a war would last no longer than three or four weeks and that Israel could be resupplied from the U.S. without difficulty...