Word: preventing
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However, for the American Civil Liberties Union to use this argument to prevent the detection of crimes [Feb. 13] -the crimes of staying on welfare and also filling jobs-is immoral; it outrages me! What about the liberties of those who pay the taxes that perpetuate the crimes...
Officials at the Office of the Registrar recently discovered they have misplaced at least 15 study cards, but were too late to prevent senior tutors from sending out delinquency notices to those students whose cards had been lost, Marion C. Belliveau, registrar of the Faculty, said yesterday...
...advocate on issues so the committee can consider all possible viewpoints. This defense of secrecy is simplistic--all too often the purpose of secret deliberations is to protect from the public's rightful wrath ACSR members who sincerely, not hypothetically, espouse socially irresponsible investment policies. Secret deliberations also effectively prevent concerned students from mobilizing support for progressive decisions on individual issues--if you don't know what the ACSR is discussing, you can't convince them to play it your way on the issue. The secrecy of the ACSR is even more indefensible now that the group of representatives from...
What else may biorhythm be applied to? Opportunities are limitless, says Pete Callinicos, a captain in the Denver fire department who runs a biorhythm business on the side. Callinicos says the theory can put compatible policemen in squad cars, determine the patterns of arsonists and maybe even prevent birth defects. Another advantage to biorhythm is that it provides extra income for a swelling number of entrepreneurs. With an investment of about $4,000, says Thommen, anybody can rent a bit of computer time and sell 30? charts for $10. In the rush for profits, laments Thommen, some...
...only thing snow may not be is in finitely variable. One would like to be lieve that no two snowflakes are identical. But, notes Ruth Kirk, there are no physical rules that should prevent nature from duplicating itself, and there are more than half a million snowflakes in each cubic foot of snow. Scientists may not have found two flakes that are exactly alike. But then, they really haven't looked at that many...