Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conservative Club had invited Hoppenstein to speak, but divestment activists formed a human blockade to prevent him from leaving Lowell House. Harvard police surrounded Hoppenstein and pushed through the protest...
License Commissioner James T. McDavitt said last night that the latter ban was imposed to prevent Yellow Cab's owner, Arthur Goldberg, from forming an effective Cambridge monopoly by selling the fleet to Frederic Suazo, owner of Yellow Cab's chief competitor, Ambassador/Brattle...
...suspicious patterns. The exchange immediately tipped off the SEC, which built its case by tracing the trades to Vaskevitch and Sofer and then examining their telephone records. After the SEC filed the civil charges last week, a federal judge froze all current U.S. assets of Vaskevitch and Sofer to prevent the two from pulling the money out of the country. The SEC hopes to force the suspects to disgorge their profits and pay triple damages, all of which could total $16 million. While no criminal charges have been filed against the two suspected insiders, the U.S. Attorney's office...
...another anti-racist action, the university has also agreed to waive a bylaw that would prevent the institution from bestowing an honorary degree upon Nelson Mandela because he would not be able to accept in person, Osley said...
Cambridge last week decided not to give landmark status to a century-old Mass Ave building complex, including the last attempt by community activists to prevent the construction of a new primarily residential building in its place...