Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Coach Joe Bernal's plan for a first in the 1000-yd. free without using Bobby Hackett backfired. Harvard's superior divers realized the necessity of sweeps in the one and three-meter board events to prevent Princeton from putting the meet out of reach...
...President Carter stepped into the legislative process. He asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill to delay consideration of a rule that would allow the postal bill to come to the floor for a vote. This is a highly unusual attempt by the White House to prevent congressional deliberation of an important national question...
...cast protest votes against the government in the belief that the President would keep a leftist Assembly from passing radical measures must beware: "You can choose the [left's program], but it will be carried out. Don't think that the President has the constitutional means to prevent...
...worldwide diplomatic position. Main reason: the outbreak of war between Viet Nam and Cambodia in December has disrupted what until recently seemed a successful effort by the Chinese to win new friends and influence throughout Southeast Asia at the expense of the Soviets. Peking's inability to prevent the fighting between its Indochinese neighbors has been a serious foreign policy failure, and in some ways its struggle to stay friends with two smaller and mutually hostile allies mirrors Moscow's recent history on the Horn of Africa...
...best interests of baseball" is obviously a catchall phrase that eludes precise definition, but Kuhn was in this case attempting to maintain a competitive balance in the National League. His desire to prevent the Big Red Machine from running away with the pennant is an understandable one, but Kuhn will be hardpressed to justify the $400,000 ceiling he has put on the sale of players...