Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about Poddar's threat. Alameda County Superior Court found no grounds for the suit, but the state supreme court's new ruling sends the case back to trial. Substance of that ruling: confidentiality between therapist and patient must yield "when a warning is necessary to prevent a violent attack." Moreover, therapists could be liable to civil damages, unless it can be shown that "sound professional judgment" was used...
Elsewhere, doctors, health officials and concerned citizens are also making a concerted effort to identify and treat as many victims of high blood pressure as they can find. Stanford University has been working through its Heart Disease Prevention program to acquaint people in three northern California cities with the dangers of high blood pressure. Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has just begun a massive education effort. Hospitals in some 20 cities are participating in the federally funded "Mr. Fit" program designed to prevent heart attacks in a test group of men between 35 and 57. It aims at identifying...
Further downward pressure on the metal's price seems likely this week, when the Treasury will sell 2 million oz. from its 276-million-oz. stockpile. Purpose: to meet U.S. demand with U.S. gold and thus prevent dollars from flowing out of the country to buy imported metal. Buyers had additional reason to be hesitant. Several leading banks announced that they would not sell gold because of the costs and risks to unsophisticated investors. The National Association of Securities Dealers told the members to exercise "great caution" in gold dealings, warning that no federal mechanism exists to protect investors...
...hold his own against most rival forwards, Barry can torment opponents with a deadly outside jump shot or exceptionally quick moves to the basket. Already this season, he has scored more than 40 points in ten games. "I don't believe any one man can prevent me from scoring," he says. Because he has been so hot, he often draws double coverage, and that leaves teammates open for Barry's artful feeds...
...AMERICANS should reject Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's statement that the United States would consider the "use of force" in the Mideast to prevent "strangulation of the industrialized world" by the oil producing nations...