Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Airport searches operate on an interesting premise: that the government can prevent crime by searching innocent people to make sure that none of them is a criminal, or has the means to commit a crime. The premise, of course, is demonstrably correct, as the absence of hijackings the last 21 months proves. Logically, the government should apply this sound theory of crime prevention to other danger areas. Why not search people going into banks? That would undoubtedly end bank robberies. To prevent both non-violent shoplifting and violent hold-ups, why not search customers in stores and supermarkets? They...
Despite the report's strong language, the city manager failed to carry out any of its recommendations. Third District Court records show that Officer DeLuca made a concerted effort to prevent scheduling any disciplinary hearings...
...Ironically we might be adopting a hazardous technology in order to prevent exhaust emissions which by themselves may not be as harmful," Kain said...
...that point, starvation and disease would kill about the same number of people as prompt action on birth control would prevent from being born in the first place. But, the study points...
...report says, "a real partnership between the economies of the oil-producing and oil-consuming regions." But the authors do not seem to worry about the effects of this strategy on developing nations now being driven to the verge of bankruptcy by high oil prices or how it will prevent all wealth from eventually ending up in the Middle East. Instead, they look farther ahead to international cooperation and interdependence as the key to healthy, diverse growth in the world's economy...