Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refusal to deal with Jordan over the West Bank in recent months, some U.S. officials believe, thereby weakening King Hussein and strengthening Arafat's position at the Rabat summit. But more important, in the U.S. view, Syrian President Assad, has been pursuing a "stalemate strategy" of seeking to prevent progress toward an Israeli settlement with Jordan and Egypt until Israel makes some concessions -like a partial withdrawal on the Golan Heights-to Syria as well...
...general of the Americal Division, had enough information to have taken the necessary steps to stop the carnage. According to the report, when Koster learned that there were six to eight dead civilians in the area, he should have ordered a prompt investigation and taken "strong positive action to prevent any further killing...
...have often turned to violence as the first step in their fight for nationhood. If it were not for the guerrilla war carried out by the Irish Republican Army, for example, the Republic of Ireland might never have gained its independence. The unsavory reputation of the I.R.A. did not prevent its onetime leader, Sean MacBride, from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize last month for his subsequent crusade for human justice in Amnesty International...
...California environmentalist groups lost a bitter fight to stop construction of a dam on the Stanislaus River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 62-story-high structure was designed to prevent yearly flooding of the lower Stanislaus. Backers of the project cite other benefits like some 2.4 million acre-feet of irrigation water and enough nonpolluting hydroelectric power to supply a city of 200,000 people. The problem is that the dam will also destroy some nine miles of spectacular white water. An organization called Friends of the River, which was formed to fight the dam, persuasively argued that flood...
...prevent infections from transfusions, hospitals in July 1973 were urged by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to use only blood volunteered by carefully selected donors. Furthermore, HEW asked hospitals to freeze most of the blood they do collect; that process not only increases safety by eliminating the white blood cells that can cause transfusion reactions but stretches the shelf life of blood. This in effect increases the available supply. Most hospitals have not yet been able to comply fully with HEW's request. But the half dozen or so that are nearing this goal consider their efforts...