Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasonably coherent program. It was unexciting, unsurprising, unadventurous, but it seemed designed to appeal to the nation for those very reasons. The aim, apparently, is to present Carter as a prudent manager, aware that the tangled complexities of guiding a growing but troubled economy prevent any President from doing everything at once, ready to put off those goals that are merely desirable in favor of those that are essential. The program's main elements...
After City Councilor Walter J. Sullivan adjourned the balloting, the council attempted to consider an amendment to prevent landlords from evicting tenants from apartments they wish to convert to condominiums...
...council is also expected this evening to approve a bill that City Councilor Saundra Graham proposed last spring that would prevent landlords from evicting residents from apartments they wish to convert to condominiums...
...four years 9to5 has done a lot. In addition to the victories and half-victories already mentioned, it has helped prevent Department of Labor revisions that would have weakened federal affirmative action regulations. It has gotten state legislation passed that will prevent New England Telephone Company from including its lobbying expenses (in particular, expenses for lobbying against legislation for improving maternity benefits) in estimates of the rate base. It has introduced legislation to include temporary employment agencies under existing state regulations for regular agencies, and has pressured the state secretary to stop illegal lobbying by agencies opposed to the bill...
Neverthless, while cautioning against "consumer" psychiatry and religion, Cox does not condemn a "search for identity" outright. He wishes to prevent its manipulation by the materialistic elements he sees as basic to American social structure. God, Cox declares: "liberates the oppressed by enabling them to liberate themselves...Anything else feeds the kind of millenial fantasies which have kept the poor in bondage for centuries...