Word: preventing
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Silber says that provision limiting college tuition hikes to the annual cost-of-living index is needed "to prevent colleges from abusing the plan," but Congressional sources indicate that the objections of several major universities, including Harvard, make it unlikely that the tuition limitations provision will survive committee review of the House bill...
...federal proposals to regulate the use of children as medical subjects will probably prevent their exploitation without hampering legitimate research, William J. Curran, professor of Legal Medicine at the Medical School wrote in an editorial in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...
...first women crew members ever to serve on its ocean-going vessels (other than a transport or hospital ship). The service had been barred by law from so using women until this summer, when a federal district court ruled that sex cannot be used as a criterion to prevent volunteers from serving on combat-related vessels. To comply with this ruling, the Navy is refitting the Vulcan and four other support ships to take on 16 female officers and 375 enlisted women. Fifteen more ships are expected to be remodeled in the next five years, and it is estimated that...
Some newspapers wrote glowingly about the protest and Smith's speech, calling them symbols of the school's role as a forum for debate. It was, however, a debate that the Kennedy School's administration had tried to prevent up until the last moment...
...Enlightened self-interest" can prevent the misery in marriages that has contributed to a nation-wide divorce rate of 40 per cent, a panel of three couples told a group of about 50 people at Adams House last night...