Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill's talents are misapplied when he spends his time designing space homes for our overpopulated planet [June 3]. He would do better to figure out how to feed 3.86 billion people or prevent this number from becoming larger. Each home would accommodate 200,000 people; at current birth rates we can fill one space home each day without decreasing the number of people on earth...
...impeachment process was evident in a letter signed by Nixon to Chairman Rodino, firmly rejecting for the fourth time a Judiciary Committee subpoena of presidential tapes. Contending that the White House had extensively cooperated with the committee, the Nixon letter argued that he must "draw a line" to prevent "unlimited search and seizure" of Executive Branch files by the Legislative Branch. This was necessary to preserve the delicate separation of powers among the three branches decreed by the Constitution. Totally ignored in the letter was the fact that the congressional power to remove a President from office by impeachment...
Peking is unconvinced. One reason is that the Soviets have recently engaged in harassment of Chinese shipping near the Manchurian border. Late last month the Russians threatened to prevent Chinese boats from using the Ussuri and Amur rivers at the point where they converge. The Soviets claim that the border between the two countries is formed by the narrow Kazakevicheva Channel, which joins the two rivers about 20 miles south of their actual convergence near the Soviet city of Khabarovsk. In a stiff diplomatic note to Peking, the Russians said that they were "ready as before" to allow Chinese ships...
...Minutes: Actor Barry Sullivan recounting the career of Tom Paine, Charlton Heston describing George Washington's reaction to the Boston Tea Party, Richard Crenna explaining the impact of the fuel crisis in Boston in the year 1774, and Jean Stapleton revealing Martha Washington's secret recipe to prevent cherries from spoiling...
...determining some of the reasons for female infertility. Introduced through the vagina of a patient under a local anesthetic (see diagram), the culdoscope gives doctors a sperm's-eye view of the female reproductive system, and has enabled them to discover several previously unknown defects that can prevent conception and pregnancy...