Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even after these ambient fiber levels have been determined, control is prohibitively expensive. Workers must be supplied with respirators, and working areas must be enclosed to prevent the spread of contamination. Powerful ventilation must be constructed. Similar precautions must be taken wherever asbestos products are sanded, drilled, ground, pressed or even handled extensively...
...White House for another two years, with more than half the Senate convinced he is guilty. He would be a captive of Congress. The Southern conservatives wouldn't like that at all. If they saw it was about to happen, many of them would vote him guilty just to prevent...
Councilor David A. Wylie had the vote postponed last week, through the use of his charter right, in an attempt to prevent prohibition of the concerts and instead substitute a system of noise monitoring to reduce the disturbance in the area around the Common...
Many prison authorities agree that the growth of such organizations stems directly from the growth of inmate rights. To prevent violence and head off the formation of revolutionary prisoner groups, prison officials regularly transfer leaders or troublemakers to other institutions, a practice now under attack as unconstitutional punishment in various courts. Some hard-line penologists are also seeking to overturn court decisions concerning the attorney-client privilege and are hoping to regain the right to censor prisoner mail and restrict the flow of supposedly radical reading material into institutions. As an example of the kind of material he would keep...
...succession of private inspirations, filled with coups and veerings, breathtaking perfidies, ideological self-betrayals, but with a tenaciously pursued vision in the back ground." Fest believes that "objective factors" in today's politics - presumably such things as international interdependence, vastly increased communications, and resources for popular resistance - would prevent another Hitler from achieving such singular power. A comforting thought, if true. But time is long and virtue fleeting. Men's capacity for evil-as well as for heroism-does not seem to change...