Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often proclaimed his relish for combat, he seemed to dread it at the same time; it was as if defeat would mean, as it did for the King of the Wood in Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, a sentence of death. It was his efforts to prevent the exposure of his Administration's failings that ultimately undid...
Introduced by Hungate, the abuse of powers article embraced five areas of presidential activity: 1) attempted abuse of IRS information and audits; 2) use of wiretaps for purposes other than national security; 3) creation of the White House squad of secret investigators, the "plumbers"; 4) failure to prevent subordinates from impeding such investigations as those into the Watergate and Ellsberg burglaries; 5) interfering with the FBI, CIA, Watergate special prosecution force and the Department of Justice. The article was assailed by Wiggins as citing no violation of law, while his position was challenged by California Democrat George Danielson...
...little choice but to accept the changes. "Mistakes have to be paid for," said Caramanlis in a reference to the former junta's rash decision to overthrow Makarios. Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros explained that "we did not go to Geneva for diplomatic glory. We went there to prevent a deterioration of the situation...
...billion for foreign petroleum, a fivefold jump since 1972. But as Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani stressed, compassion had little to do with the Saudi drive to lower prices. The Saudis, he said, want to avoid a "worldwide recession because that will hurt us," and to prevent rising unemployment and inflation from strengthening "the leftists in the major industrial nations." Moreover, Yamani warned, economic weaknesses in the West could shift the balance of power in favor of "the Eastern bloc, Russia and China. They are self-sufficient in their energy...
...center will also try to influence University hiring and admission policies for women and attempt to prevent future passage of conservative abortion laws, Driver said yesterday...