Word: preventing
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Much of the country's unpredictability owes to the mercurial personality of Chairman Mao. He is a romantic revolutionary who has an unsettling habit of turning China topsy-turvy every once in a while to prevent bureaucratic ossification and ensure the vitality of what he terms "continuing revolution." Bent on "sweeping up the ghosts and monsters" of privilege and hierarchy, he may order his ministers out to dig irrigation ditches or even launch a campaign like the Cultural Revolution, which convulsed his huge country for three years...
When the rebate money does start flowing, it should perk up sales enough to create more jobs or at least prevent some layoffs. But how strong will the effect be? The Administration's own projections are not exactly enthusiastic. Unemployment will continue to rise but at a slower rate. One White House adviser estimates that with the Ford program, the unemployment rate by year's end would be half a point below what it would otherwise be. Economist Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources, Inc., makes a similar forecast. He reckons that the unemployment rate next December would...
...Bkerke, Lebanon. Spiritual head of 800,000 Maronite-rite Roman Catholics (65,000 of them in the U.S.), Meouchi played a major role in the delicate politics of Lebanese Christians and Moslems. Named bishop of Tyre in 1934 after serving in California, Indiana and Massachusetts parishes, he worked to prevent sectarian conflict, siding with Moslem opposition to Lebanon's Christian President Camille Chamoun in 1958 civil strife and recently supporting Palestinian territorial claims. Meouchi counted Jordan's King Hussein and Egypt's Anwar Sadat as friends, once blessed a delegation of Moslem mullahs as they prayed...
...Northrop Corp. of Los Angeles, the company's single-engine YF-16 had finally won a bruising Air Force competition for a new generation of lightweight fighter-interceptors. The new machine is supposed to help the planners fight rising costs in military budgets, but that will not prevent it from yielding a bonanza in jobs, profits and aerospace-industry production contracts that will stretch well into the 1980s...
...then did they send in the bulldozer without notification or discussion at this time when, as Mr. Moulton says, the University has no immediate plans for the site? Why did Harvard take out the demolition permit late on Tuesday and destroy the house early on Wednesday if not to prevent Community action? The University knew that the Community, the Planning Board and the Historical Society all wished to save that wonderful old house. And why flatten the garden? When the University razed the building at 11 Sacramento Street it at least left a few trees standing. Now the block looks...