Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both the Nazis and of international Communism. Both systems practiced slaughter and butchery on a mass scale, and that was reason enough for opposing their advances. Even today, the handful of stalwarts who still defend America's entry into Vietnam base their position on the alleged need to prevent the bloodbath that would inevitably follow a Communist takeover...
...began removing restrictions on production of wheat and other feed grains, and now it has taken them all off. Agriculture Secretary Butz has announced that, at least through the end of next year, farmers are free to plant as much of these crops as they please. That will not prevent further painful inflation during the rest of 1973, but it should help slow food price rises next year...
...verge of a civil war and we must prevent ..." Salvador Allende Gossens managed to warn his audience on nationwide television last week before the lights flickered twice and the screen went dead. Saboteurs had blown up the tower supporting a main electric circuit in Santiago, leaving the Chilean President without a live camera and 60% of the population in the dark. An hour later, thanks to some fast splicing, Allende was back on the air, his voice strained, blaming right-wing elements for this latest terrorist...
Schools not only fail to develop these capabilities, says the Coleman panel, but by monopolizing young people's time, they also prevent them from acquiring skills elsewhere. Until about 50 years ago, a child learned how to be an adult in his life outside school, especially within his family. But the family no longer serves this function, and "school has expanded to fill the time that other activities once occupied without substituting for them." Segregated by age, today's young are saturated with information but starved for experience...
Since man first appeared on this planet, he has been at the mercy of earthquakes, which over the ages have devastated wide areas and killed millions of people. While scientists may never learn to prevent quakes, they may soon be able to forecast them accurately, giving inhabitants a chance to flee a threatened area in time. Early this month, for the first time, scientists predicted an earthquake-and then felt it rumble beneath their feet right on schedule...