Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to safeguard access to plutonium materials" to prevent nuclear blackmail by terrorist groups or unstable emerging nations, he said...
...move to help prevent irresponsible electioneering and sexual discrimination, the International Relations Council (IRC) passed a statement Monday calling for an ethics code to govern conduct and procedure in the organization's elections...
...resolution in Exxon to prevent the firm from making charitable contributions to institutions that perform animal experiments without a veterinarian present lost by a unanimous vote...
...second Exxon resolution to prevent the firm from pressuring employees to support political campaigns also lost--by a vote of one in favor and eight against--because many of the acts the proposal sought to prevent are already illegal and Exxon states it is not engaging in those tactics anyway...
Polls show the outcome uncertain, with nearly half the electorate still undecided. In a desperate effort to defeat Jarvis-Gann and appease homeowners, Governor Jerry Brown is backing a more modest Behr amendment. It uses a complex valuation formula to prevent local governments from increasing property taxes for homeowners by much more than the inflation rate. That is part way to a good idea. The solution is not holding down any one tax, but holding them all down, and the best way to achieve that is to curb spending by government itself...