Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each voter in their constituency. That would mean roughly $21 million for presidential hopefuls (compared with $60 million raised by President Nixon in 1972 and $36 million raised by George McGovern), between $175,000 and $2,000,000 for Senators, and a minimum of $90,000 for Representatives. To prevent trivial presidential candidacies, the new legislation would have required candidates to raise some money of their own for primary campaigns before they would become eligible for public funds...
Thirty-five Kansas farmers, calling themselves the Concerned Citizens United, Inc. (CCU), are attempting to prevent the Kansas Power and Light Co. from constructing a 2800 megawatt coal-burning power plant near St. Mary's, Kansas...
Allende's supporters had thought that the legality of his election would prevent the establishment of an economic blockade by private organizations. They failed to realize that it was only on the basis of U.S. government long-term loans that private sources of short-term loans thought Chile worthy of credit...
Until 1960, the producers' cartels faced disorganized opposition from the producing governments. At that time, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was formed among the producer governments (including Venezuala, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar, Libya, Indonesia and Abu Dhabi to keep prices high, and prevent the cartels from bringing pressure on single countries. Since that time, producer nations have won a higher share of oil company profits, and begun to establish national companies of their own, often in partnership with western companies...
Marighela intended that the Brazilian revolutionary war would eventually spread to the countryside, where the major battles would be fought, but the struggle was to begin in the cities, both to mobilize people living there and to prevent the military from immediately wiping out the revolutionaries. The new revolutionary war begins in the cities, Marighela wrote, "instead of with rural guerrilla warfare which would have attracted a concentration of enemy forces." The wave of political bank robberies, assasinations, kidnappings and so forth would demoralize the government, increase the repression and the contradictions within Brazilian society, and prepare the country...