Word: preventing
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...ability to repel a Soviet invasion depends on reinforcements and supplies arriving from the U.S. after the fighting starts. Since airlifts can transport only a tiny fraction of this, the bulk of the critically important resupply could be sunk by Soviet submarines, land-based aircraft and surface vessels. To prevent this, contend Navy officers, U.S. warships, armed with antisubmarine and antimissile weapons, must escort supply convoys across the Atlantic. Not only is this naval capacity needed in case of all-out war, it could be required in some future Middle East crisis, for example, if the Soviet navy attempted...
...California, where 1.5 million people have signed petitions and forced a statewide vote to be held June 6 on Proposition 13, the so-called Jarvis-Gann initiative. If approved, Jarvis-Gann would force all property to be reassessed at the market value that prevailed in 1975-76 and prevent local authorities from increasing the assessments in the future by more than 2% a year, at least until the property is sold. After that, the rate would be based on what the new owner paid. The amendment would produce an immediate cut of as much as 60% in property taxes...
...Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said yesterday Harvard will seek to prevent Corkin from being the appeal hearing officer, who recommends a decision to the DEQE commissioner, allegedly because "he is biased against because he is allegedly "biased against Harvard's lawyers, although he is probably objective as far as the substance of the case is concerned...
...Congress and a dozen other countries have condemned as the worst of the human rights violators." To pressure the banks, Moffitt has encouraged the initiation of shareholder resolutions by groups around the country. His efforts evoke the recent student attempts to pressure the Harvard Corporation to prevent U.S. banks from loaning money to South Africa. Deja...
...Core plan provides criteria that can prevent an undirected proliferation of courses like that which has eroded the purpose of the present Gen Ed program, Rosovsky said...