Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week that it could bring on a "worldwide depression" by making industrial nations unable to pay for the oil they need. He went on to promise mysterious "personal initiatives" by President Nixon, starting this week, to get about 20 oil-consuming and -producing countries together to do something to prevent prices from exploding through the stratosphere...
What is the reason? It is to prevent ourselves as a country from going to rip-roaring inflation...
...movement depends in large part upon the action of dopamine, one of the brain's most important chemical transmitters. Parkinson's disease results from a degeneration of the cells that help produce this chemical. By boosting the level of dopamine in the brain, L-dopa helps to prevent the palsy associated with the disease...
...breakthrough could also lead to the kind of social evolution that might help prevent the conflicts that now set man against man and nation against nation. "Most of our evolution has been somatic," says Schmitt. "We've changed our shape. But if we could really understand ourselves and by extension each other, we could evolve socially as well." That kind of evolution, Schmitt contends, may well be necessary for the continuation of the species. "Armies aren't the key to man's survival," he says. "Governments are not enough. Treaties are not enough. Only self-knowledge will...
...weeks after his right leg was amputated above the knee to prevent the spread of a rare form of can cer, Teddy Kennedy Jr., 12, appears to be making an excellent recovery. Having adjusted to his new leg well enough to walk a few steps without crutches, Teddy confidently joined a pre-Christmas family sledding party in Virginia. Then he arrived at Palm Beach for a vacation with his family at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy. He rejected a waiting wheelchair at the airport and made his own way to the car. The next day, Teddy, wearing...