Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struck the German craft with eight 30-mm shells, setting her stern gun turret afire and punching a hole in her hull beneath the waterline. Three crewmen were injured. After the fire was put out and the leak plugged, the Neckar limped into its home port of Kiel. To prevent damage to NATO-Warsaw Pact relations, Bonn described the attack as an accident, perhaps caused by the poor aim of Polish gunners. Warsaw began an investigation into the occurrence...
...insuring that whatever whites can do, Blacks can do too--even if it means killing young people as a result of irrational fear. Is society so crime-ridden that it is just assumed that vigilantism is all right? And is our challenge now merely to ensure that racism not prevent Blacks from having the equal opportunity to act outside the law in self-defense? The recent flurry of commentary on the Goetz case suggests that we are at such a point, that indeed common sense has become the latest victim of the streets...
...case that led to last week's ruling had its obscure origins in a 1978 flood that leveled the Lutherglen retreat and recreational center along the Mill Creek in California's Angeles Crest National Forest. To prevent possible future disasters, Los Angeles County banned all reconstruction in the area. The center's owner, the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale, took exception to the safety measure. Claiming that the county's action violated the Fifth Amendment, the church sued for compensatory damages. Almost eight years after that suit was initiated, the high bench, by a 6-to-3 vote...
...Justices declared that when government regulations unreasonably prevent all uses of land, this amounts to confiscation. The owner is thus entitled to payment, even if the restrictions are later lifted. Writing for a majority made up of both liberal and conservative colleagues, Chief Justice William Rehnquist said, "We merely hold that where the government's activities have already worked a taking of all use of property, no subsequent action by the government can relieve it of the duty to provide compensation for the period during which the taking was effective." Rehnquist acknowledged that the decision would "lessen to some extent...
...Rear Admiral John Poindexter, the former National Security Adviser. Poindexter is scheduled to appear on July 7 and North later in the month. The committees' investigators have been grilling Poindexter in secret sessions without any of the legislators present, an arrangement the chairmen apparently agreed to in order to prevent leaks. But there was an understanding that if Poindexter produced any bombshells, such as having briefed Reagan on the diversion, the chairmen would be promptly notified. So far, Poindexter's inquisitors have been silent -- an auspicious signal for the President...