Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government fully nationalized copper mines and other industrial properties owned by U.S. companies and declined to pay several of them compensation. Relations between the two countries grew worse when it was revealed that multinational ITT had offered the U.S. Government more than $1,000,000 to help prevent Allende's election, and had held discussions with the CIA on possible ways to keep him out of office...
Meanwhile, the political polarization of Chile continued, with Allende seemingly unable to do much about it. The truckers' protest triggered sporadic strikes by doctors, shopkeepers and bus and taxi drivers angered by ballooning inflation (300% in the first six months of this year) and meager incomes. To prevent chaos, the President tried to make peace with the opposition Christian Democrats. Nothing came of the dialogue because the party was badly split. One faction urged support for the government. Another, led by ex-President Frei, was determined to help topple it by withholding cooperation...
...Gulf Stream, and animals have spacious cages with privacy when they want it. The prize whiteeared pheasants from Peking strut amid 100 varieties of flora from their native China. The zoo's keepers (including four who have B.Sc. degrees and one with a Ph.D.) invent projects to prevent the animals from becoming bored...
Ironically, the panel formed to study the multinational question was approved largely because of Chile's explosive accusations that ITT, the $8.6 billion U.S. multinational, had tried to prevent Salvador Allende from assuming the nation's presidency in 1970. The hearings began on the day of Allende's overthrow...
...Gulf Coast states. In 1970 the winds, rains and floods of Hurricane Celia killed eleven and caused some $454 million in damage in Texas alone. Two years later, Hurricane Agnes brought even greater devastation, killing 118 people and leaving over $3 billion in damage. In a continuing effort to prevent−or at least minimize−such disasters, the Federal Government has been sponsoring Project Stormfury, which was designed to study the formation of the complex storms and find ways of controlling them...