Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director of the Hypertension Clinic at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and I don't know how to prevent hypertension," he added...
Helms appeared before a federal grand jury in Washington last November to testify on the role of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) in the CIA's attempt to prevent Allende's inauguration as president...
...proposed student assembly will also be a unified, central representative body. At every turn, the convention has developed constraints to prevent the new body from becoming House or district segmented. For example, representatives that are elected from within the Houses will cast votes in the assembly individually, not as a proportion of their House's vote...
...business community was taking no chances. At the headquarters of a major multinational company, an iron gate was installed to protect the offices against attacks by street mobs. The top management of a French heavy-machinery company in the Paris suburbs changed the locks on their factory doors to prevent a lockout by workers. Commercial transactions were being carried out mainly on a day-to-day basis, with immediate payment demanded. In the vast government ministries, the bureaucracy meandered, as decisions were postponed until after the elections...
...prevent just that, the U.S. would use the new borrowings to buy its own money. This would give the dollar at least a temporary lift and allow the U.S. time to reduce its budget and trade deficits and to enact a policy for developing and conserving energy-all of which will be necessary to restore America's currency to its old eminence...