Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...account by adviser Clark Clifford of the meeting between Kennedy and Eisenhower, Clifford quotes Eisenhower as saying that he considered Laos of such crucial importance that "as a last desperate hope" he would intervene unilaterally to prevent its fall to the Communists. No mention of Vietnam was made at the meeting...
...million loan and curb overly aggressive and ruthless private Japanese business practices through a new government agency, to be called The Economic Cooperation Ministry. None of this satisfied the students, who left the meeting threatening to "act against every Japanese in Thailand" unless the government acts to prevent Japanese domination of the economy...
Committee members urged students not to involve themselves physically to prevent a crime. Hall said that people who interfere often become victims...
Researchers writing in the January 5 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine report that taking Vitamin C cannot prevent the common cold but may make the troublesome illness shorter and more bearable...
...groups to brighten the corners where they live. In November he looked at the Oregon movement to discourage economic and population growth in order to protect the state's agreeable style of life. Last fall he reported on the efforts of householders in declining Chicago neighborhoods to prevent runaway banks from cutting off mortgages and home-improvement loans and thus accelerating the downward spiral of their communities. Secondly, Moyers keeps a door constantly open to cinema verite film makers willing to shoot something more illuminating than rock concerts. In December he and Producer Wayne Ewing did an emotionally potent...