Word: preventing
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...thirds of American Catholic women now admit that they practice birth control. In the U.S., in fact, more than 80% of the 26.5 million married women in their fertile years now use some kind of contraceptive regularly, more than a third of them relying on the Pill to prevent pregnancy. Sterilization of both men and women is also on the increase. Abortions, once obtainable only illegally or under special circumstances, are now easier to get in many states. In the second half of 1970, doctors performed 193,500 legal abortions; by 1972 the figure had climbed...
...prevent viewers from confusing their heroes, cop crops of the past few years featured gimmickry-wheelchairs, helicopters and lollipops. This year's trend is to the ethnic and geographical distribution of justice...
Watergate raised troublesome questions in the public mind: Can citizens ever really know what is going on in their Government? Can they ever really call it to account? Can they prevent the use of their own instruments of self-government to coerce and harass them? Has the public process been wholly corrupted by the underground link between money and politics? Does the Constitution effectively secure our liberties...
...exactly orthodox, it was nonetheless in line with a growing search for alternatives to jail. Judge Sepe, 47, has become Miami's foremost proponent of what might be called creative punishment. Rather than hand down penalties that fit the crime, Sepe tries to set probation terms that may prevent continued offenses. Thus a young marijuana smuggler was ordered to go back to college, get a job, report his grades to the court and write a paper on whether marijuana has harmful effects. A youth convicted of disorderly conduct and violently resisting arrest was required to teach a jail inmate...
...National Football League, which has successfully avoided any direct brush with gambling interests since Green Bay Packers Running Back Paul Hornung and Detroit Lions Tackle Alex Karras were suspended in 1963 for betting on games. The N.F.L. long ago adopted an injury-reporting procedure that was designed specifically to prevent what happened in the Pisani affair. Twice every week, each of the league's 26 teams must make public a list of injured players and their availability for the next game: "out, doubtful, questionable, possible or probable...