Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election itself, the T.S.E. not only flashes the results on TV and radio the instant they come out of the computers -the better to prevent fraud-but also recounts the ballots afterward...
...College President John G. Kemeny, an eminent mathematician, envisions great benefits from the computer, but in his worst-case imaginings he sees a government that would possess one immense, interconnecting computer system: Big Brother. The alternative is obviously to isolate government computers from one another, to decentralize them, to prevent them from possibly becoming dictatorial. But that would require considerable foresight, sophistication?and possibly a tough new variety of civil rights legislation...
...also plans to testify soon before a Senate Intelligence subcommittee on legislative means to prevent further CIA abuses of power. A draft bill on this subject has already been written, but Fisher says the bill will undergo radical changes before it is finished...
...commonplace to note that crises bring out the best in societies, and--in that sense at least--last week's extended snow emergency provided no surprises. Swift and effective action by state authorities, aided by cooperation all the way down the line of local government, helped prevent a difficult situation from becoming a catastrophe of monumental proportions. In the same way, the University's handling of the early days of the emergency prevented the situation at Harvard from deteriorating. All those involved rightly deserve high praise, not only for knowing how to face a terrible disaster, but also for realizing...
...become instantly precocious, but it hasn't happened," Natalie Pihl says. "We're concerned because the kids get a lot of attention from so many people, and we're afraid they might become--spoiled," Graeme Fincke says. He and his wife are "keeping an eye on the children" to prevent that from happening...