Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be possible to at least prevent people from jogging" soon after workers spray malathon in the Yard, Whitlock said...
...life. His not caring about the serious side at all. That's very seductive to me. I would feel fine making a picture like Sleeper tomorrow, but I get the feeling the audience would be disappointed. They expect something else from me now. But I wouldn't let that prevent my doing it. It would be just too much fun to make a real out-and-out junk kind of thing." With some regret, Allen found himself having to cut jokes out of Manhattan in the editing. "They were very funnyalways called up my travel agent and called...
Union officers flinch at the mere mention of a strike. Woody Ferguson, president of Detroit Local 174, which has 17,000 members, notes that the high cost of living would almost prevent a long walkout. Said he: "We can no longer strike over 50 for weeks on end." But if there is a strike, which company would be the target? Union representatives believe that Chrysler is too weak financially to weather a major stoppage. Ford was the target of the last strike, which lasted 28 days in 1976. So it might be General Motors' turn to take the heat...
...have time to think. Caught up in a crisis, a President has a tendency to turn the agency into a kind of wire service to provide hour-by-hour commentary. This cuts down man-hours that should be available for the long-range analysis that may help a President prevent a crisis in the first place. The CIA fights a constant, often losing battle to protect the continuity of its basic research...
...should be enacted to prevent the disclosure of certain classified information, especially the publication of agents' names that puts their lives as well as their missions in danger. It is surely anomalous that people can receive a prison sentence for releasing data on bank loans, relief rolls or crop statistics, while others can reveal intelligence matters with impunity. At Washington's Dupont Circle, seven miles from CIA headquarters, a group is in business to publish the names of CIA agents abroad. Under the present espionage law, somebody who divulges secrets can be convicted only if it is proved...