Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object of the battle is to prevent the disease from spreading by removal of the heavily-diseased elms and treatment of less diseased and certain specimen trees. But since the success of the treatment is erratic and the affliction is so widespread in New England, the removed trees will be replaced not by other elms, but by varieties of oaks and locusts...
...letter to Castriotta, Crampton justified the move, saying, "We see no other way to prevent the collapse of the state-aided program in Cambridge...
...have carried a flood of words describing the action both on the field and off. A banner headline in Bild Zeitung, the nation's largest paper, reported that a German soccer star had shaved off his mustache. A nervous West German government has spent millions of marks to prevent terrorists from seizing the Cup as their latest forum for guerrilla attacks...
...fact is that the innocent-until-proved-guilty rule is a courtroom rule that does and should apply in judicial proceedings, where both sides have certain rights, including subpoenaing evidence, cross-examining witnesses, etc. It cannot apply in situations that are essentially political debates, and it certainly should not prevent newsmen from using their eyes, ears and heads to form conclusions. Actually, even the most hostile segments of the press have not proclaimed Richard Nixon's "guilt." Those who believe that he should resign have concluded from the known facts that the country would be better off without...
Northerners have already accepted as part of their creed a modern statement of doctrine known as the Confession of 1967. The liberal majority in the Southern church is still trying to develop such a contemporary formulation, but fierce opposition from the denomination's vocal conservative wing may well prevent any new creed from winning the required support: 75% of the church's presbyteries. Some conservatives, however, are quitting the battle. Last year more than 55,000 of them, mostly in the Deep South, established their own National Presbyterian Church. As many as 200,000 more might break away...