Word: preventing
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...Africa stampeded in as the British, French, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Italians all raced into the interior of Africa in the year following the 1870 explorations of Livingston and Stanley. In this mad scramble for a piece of Africa, one government often annexed territory hurriedly simply to prevent another from doing so first; colonies came to have enormous value in symbolism and prestige...
...done with this spent shale? Colony Development Operation, a consortium of companies including Atlantic Richfield and Standard Oil of Ohio, has spent $1,000,000 on detailed environmental studies of the problem. Conclusion: the powdered shale can be dumped into canyons, watered, fertilized and planted with vegetation to prevent winds from blowing it into dust storms. All this can be done, says Colony, with minimal harm to the delicate ecology of the semi-arid region. Environmentalists wonder whether all companies would be so careful. If they were not, occasional rains would leach residual salts out of the wastes, sweep them...
...Gurion, the Jews of Palestine following World War II developed a double strategy to end the British mandate over the territory that had been granted by the League of Nations. They stepped up the illegal immigration of Jews from Europe in the face of stern British measures to prevent it. Meanwhile, Jewish terrorists carried out a continuous assault on British personnel and bases. This desperate strategy succeeded, and "a Jewish state in the land of Israel" was proclaimed by Ben-Gurion at the Tel Aviv museum on May 14,1948, the same day on which the last British soldier left...
Burger's legal model is the British system, under which some 300,000 solicitors defer to 3,000 barristers for all courtroom advocacy. The resulting professionalism speeds the trial process and tends to prevent a case turning primarily on the uneven skills of opposing advocates. Critics contend that the clubbiness of British barristers sometimes leads them to pull punches rather than fight for the best interests of clients. But Burger feels that too many U.S. lawyers push the adversary system to the other extreme and brawl to an unreasonable degree that wastes court time...
Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, has predicted that reforms cannot prevent another Watergate scandal because its cause--the tendency toward an "overmighty executive"--is deeply rooted in the nature of modern society...