Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love to "hit" wouldn't stand for it, nor would the thousands of armchair quarterbacks who spend their spare weekend hours watching athletes parade up and down synthetic turf. All that can be hoped for in our sports-conscious society is that every possible precaution be taken to prevent serious injury...
...friends (personally as well as politically, it seems) and to confound their adversaries. It is an old, old game and the public often loses. Isn't it time to change the rules? We cannot make our leaders take a vow of poverty. But we can make ironclad restrictions preventing a candidate or public official from using his own money for any political or public purpose. The next clause should prevent one officeholder from "assisting" another. Let them a11 behave like paupers...
...disease. But viruses have also been detected in the milk of women who have not had cancer. Hormones produced by women during the menstrual cycle and pregnancy are also under suspicion, but no one has yet determined how they might cause breast cancer or be controlled to prevent...
GREECE'S WITHDRAWAL FROM NATO: We withdrew from NATO's military alliance when, to our great sorrow, NATO's weakness became patently clear -it could not prevent armed conflict be tween two of its members. If NATO contributes positively toward the settlement of the Cyprus question-contributes satisfactorily from Greece's point of view, that is-then it would be possible for Greece to reconsider its stand toward NATO. [The alliance, Caramanlis suggested, must unanimously condemn Turkish aggression, and pressure Turkey to accept less than 40% of Cyprus...
...have them disconnected. As a replacement, the legislation suggests that the government develop regulations for a three-point lap-and shoulder-belt system that can mildly chide nonusers by lighting a dashboard warning signal and sounding a one-shot buzz for a mere eight seconds-but that will not prevent any driver from starting the engine or unbuckling en route...