Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided in his favor during that period. One was a Civil Aeronautics Board decision in July 1969 allowing him to buy Air West, a small California-based passenger line; the other was a Justice Department cancellation in the late summer of 1970 of an antitrust action that sought to prevent Hughes from purchasing additional gambling casinos in Las Vegas...
Babson's Steve Baliki scored the Beavers' second point, assisted by Bruce Brown. Babson goalkeeper Dennis Donahue, who played the entire game, was in top form: assisted by the Babson halfbacks, he helped prevent the Crimson frosh from scoring a second point...
...addition GM plans to offer later in the model year about 50,000 cars -Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs-equipped with air bags as a $200 optional substitute for seat belts. During a collision, the bags are supposed to prevent serious injury by ejecting and popping open to quickly fill the space between driver and windshield, then instantly deflate. One drawback: if the car continues to bounce or fall, the driver could be injured after the bag loses air. Nonetheless, Ford and Chrysler also plan to offer air bags as options...
Speaking to a less than capacity crowd at the Ford Hall Forum series, Sir Bernard said the laws of physics prevent mankind from completely understanding such distant points of time...
...Federal government in Washington is not usually regarded with much esteem, and several people tell Cohen that it has a damaging effect on private enterprise. Peacock is especially irate at the pollution control devices which the government says he must install in his cannery to prevent organic waste from being discharged into...