Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats hope to pass a spate of bills that have been bottled up or ignored: mandatory wage-price controls, national health insurance, a major public works program to relieve unemployment, tax reform including a scaling down of the oil-depletion allowance, an export monitoring system that will more effectively prevent the sale abroad of commodities in short supply at home, and the revival of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, an agency created by President Herbert Hoover in 1932 to help business survive the Depression...
...placating public opinion than in dealing with the I.R.A. The police have consistently opposed a ban on the I.R.A. because they say that driving the organization underground would merely complicate police operations. But no one now criticizes the ban, and Tory Leader Edward Heath even wanted it broadened to prevent newspaper and TV interviews with I.R.A. leaders. Only one Labor M.P. questioned the wisdom of rushing through a curtailment of habeas corpus. The sole measure that aroused real objections was the provision allowing British authorities to send United Kingdom citizens who were born in Ulster back home. But those objections...
...Khmer Rouge, who have fought Lon Nol since his 1970 coup that drove Prince Norodom Sihanouk into exile, now control three fourths of the land area in Cambodia. Only massive amounts of American aid--$700 million annually, most of which is military--and the threat of American retaliation prevent the rebels from over-running the few, isolated urban centers where the Lon Nol regime still holds sway...
...those answers about Cuba still came back to me a few times. Once when someone was explaining how the landlords had finally done an about-face and adopted Confucianism to safeguard their privileges, I asked why this hadn't happened sooner. "Well," the man explained, "they needed it to prevent revolts." Had there been a big wave of revolts? "There were constant revolts, all along." Then why just then? He gave me a pitying smile...
...Food Services staff is understandably reluctant to consider such possibly unpopular policy changes as restricting portions and using more soybeans, fearing the wrath of their dissatisfied "customers." But this fear should not prevent anyone from experimenting. It may just turn out that people here are beginning to think of themselves less as customers and more as people living in a world that is threatened by the possibility of starvation on a massive scale. The point is that food is a social commodity that should be distributed according to need and not according to purchasing power...