Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Service has also been accused of acting to prevent protests at the President's public appearances. Two years ago, when Billy Graham and the President appeared together in Charlotte, N.C., Secret Service agents helped screen the spectators, barring persons in T shirts and jeans, men with long hair, and other "suspicious" characters. Among those thrown out or denied admittance was a group of children from a Quaker Sunday school class...
...Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., believes that the G.N.P. will increase by 1.6% instead of 2.6% next year, assuming that the Arabs relent by April 1. But Alan Greenspan says that even if the oil resumes its flow by then, the shortages will have already done enough to prevent the economy from growing that much next year. He looks for at best a 1% growth in the gross national product-and at worst a 1% decline...
Citing weather conditions which will prevent construction before spring, the council cancelled a hearing scheduled to follow its regular meeting last night at City Hall...
Should President Nixon resign? Should he be impeached? Or what should he do to prevent either? Last week those once unthinkable questions were argued in a solemn and unique national debate. Excerpts from the most notable opinions...
Resignation would in no way resolve the question of Mr. Nixon's guilt or innocence; it would not even leave a clear sense of what the charges were, or should have been. Resignation might well insure rather than prevent continuing suspicion and bitterness in American politics. Mr. Nixon is as entitled to a day in court as any man; he is entitled to judgment on the merits of his case, not to an assumption that he looks too guilty to govern...