Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real reason why he ordered the hike in price supports, the President insisted, is that the Democratic Congress was on the verge of legislating an even larger bonanza for milk producers than the one he approved. Said Nixon: "Congress put a gun to our head." He acted only to prevent that larger increase...
...idea to move students who remain in Cambridge for the Christmas vacation into one dorm and to close the others brought protests from many students and faculty members. The problems in getting around the room contracts which students signed and of theft and liability which may result will probably prevent such a move. Instead, students who stay in their rooms may find their thermostats dropping below the 60-degree mark...
...circumstances that led to Gizikis's coup give it extraordinary significance. What finally convinced right-wing officers dismayed by even Papadopoulos's sham democracy that Greece needed a change of government was the old government's inability to prevent or even effectively suppress last week's uprising, in which thousands of students and workers fought Greek police and American tanks, demanding a restoration of democracy and freedom. The demonstrators' heroism brought down one dictatorship; because of this week's instability, and the uncertainty about the new government's policy, there's at least some possibility that Greece will become more...
...proclaimed a state of emergency to deal with a potential energy shortage caused by the refusal of coal miners and electrical engineers to work overtime. The Department of Trade and Industry announced that in October Britain suffered a trade deficit of at least $715 million, the worst ever. To prevent a potentially ruinous run on the pound, the Bank of England hiked its lending rate to an unprecedented 13%. The London stock exchange responded by slid ing to its lowest level in two years...
Right from the start the Yale offense ran with the greatest of ease up the middle, off tackle, and around the Crimson ends. In the early going Harvard had sufficient strength to contain the Eli runners and to prevent a sustained drive. But slowly the stellar Rudy Green and Tyrell Hennings, and later even the less spectacular, bulldogish John Donahue and finally a sophomore replacement gained a few extra yards after first being hit by the Crimson defenders. The Harvard secondary, especially the heralded John Clarke, was taken apart by Yale's substitute quarterback, Kevin Rogan. Early in the season...