Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tests. Doctors had discovered a clot in Nixon's right lung during that first hospital stay. Fortunately, the small clot did no major damage, and supposedly adequate doses of anticoagulant drugs to prevent formation of new clots enabled Nixon to go home to his San Clemente villa...
...North Sea interests of companies drilling for oil in Britain's offshore reserve. In addition, a National Enterprise Board will be set up to further nationalization, in whole or in part, of other industries. The board will offer cash-starved businesses the funds that they need to prevent bankruptcy, in exchange for partial government ownership and representation in management...
...citizens in at least 40 nations. Much of the ground gained in the battle for food seemed lost as the world's harvest in 1972 was roughly 3% short of meeting demands. This year's harvest has also been disappointing, and experts now question whether man can prevent widespread starvation...
...major aim of the bill is to prevent dissemination of information from the files outside of the school system without the written consent of the student. Harvard has traditionally refused to allow anyone to see the files without student authorization--though the student, of course has not been able to authorize his own inspection of them. But many universities and public schools regularly release such information. A staff report by the Governor's privacy commission last summer showed that a number of public colleges in Massachusetts release data to government agencies without obtaining the student's consent...
Ellsberg said this order--alluded to in CRP deputy director Jeb Stuart Magruder's "An American Life"--was an effort to prevent him from publicizing plans to mine Haiphong. Then president Richard M. Nixon announced the mining of the harbor on May 8, 1972, explaining that it was necessary to keep supplies from the "international outlaws" who had launched an offensive five weeks before...