Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MINORITIES AND WOMEN. The Federal Government will issue stronger guidelines to prevent discrimination. To help minorities and women who may now be trapped in dead-end jobs in the inner cities, the Administration plans to develop programs enabling them to go job hunting in areas where better employment opportunities are available...
...prevent overconfidence among treaty supporters, Carter urged all Cabinet members to keep trying to win more Senate votes. Indeed, top White House aides claimed that three Senators who voted against the neutrality treaty have indicated that they may support the second accord. As added insurance, treaty proponents are willing to attach minor reservations to make it more palatable to some wavering Senators. Thus, barring a major blunder by supporters, the treaty should pass with votes to spare...
...vast dragnet had at least one salutary effect: the capital's normally thriving crime rate was down 30%; there were simply too many cops on the streets. The police presence was also meant to prevent any follow-up terrorist attack, although that deterrent failed to stop Red Brigades gunmen in Turin from shooting and wounding Giovanni Picco, 46, the former Christian Democratic mayor...
...leftist momentum had been arrested, there were a number of constituencies where the second-round election would be decided by the narrowest of margins. "If just a few of our supporters decide to go fishing on March 19, we could still lose," declared a centrist campaign aide. To prevent a diminution of the 29 million first-round turnout, 15 center-right Cabinet ministers stormed the hustings...
...been rumored. Said one leading German banker of the $740 million to be raised by selling SDKs: "That much can be spent in two hours over the telephone." Moreover, Solomon again emphasized that the U.S. intends to buy up only as many dollars as might be necessary to prevent "disorderly markets," meaning that the U.S. will intervene only to prevent precipitate declines of the dollar. To exchange dealers, this means Washington is still prepared to let the dollar sink-gradually...