Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus the Shi'ite leaders felt threatened when the Shah set out to create a Western-style nation in the 20th century mold. He called his campaign the White (for bloodless) Revolution. Later it was renamed the Shah-People's Revolution, but changing the name did not prevent the inevitable clash of cultures...
...legislating morality." The charge is true: indeed, most laws, such as those against theft and murder, involve moral judgments. When the danger of doing wrong is greatest, the legislature must be best prepared to decide along moral lines; in this case, while legal debate over the ethics involved prevented the legislature from taking a stronger stand, it did what it could to prevent the state from involving itself it what it saw as clearly wrong...
Government troops yesterday put down rebel resistance in fire-gutted Masaya and reopened the city where Red Cross workers burned scores of unidentified corpses to prevent disease...
...officials have tried, as usual, to prevent any exaggerated expectations of the outcome at Camp David. Said one: "There is no magic formula. On the basic questions, nothing has changed. There'll be no deus ex machina coming up with a great plan." In fact, even a modest success is far from assured. It will depend in large part on the stern and cantankerous figure of Menachem Begin?and on whether any mixture of pressure and persuasion can induce the onetime guerrilla fighter to lessen his intransigency and make at least some concessions for the sake of a settlement...
Another pundit of new games is Sports Psychologist Terry Orlick, 33, of the University of Ottawa. He thinks that the foundation has not gone far enough. He notes, for example, that the foundation's tug of war encourages players to switch sides to prevent a victory. Orlick, in his new Cooperative Sports & Games Book, promotes a "tug of peace," in which children are arrayed not in two teams pulling against each other at opposite ends of a single rope, but hauling at various ropes to form stars, triangles and other designs. Orlick has even invented a cooperative version...