Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Derek C. Bok decided to cancel the dinner because he said he wanted to prevent any injury to guests. No arrests were made, although there were about 30 policeman on the scene...
...Crimson faced the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in the last game of the 1947 season. Fearing racial violence, Virginia officials attempted to prevent Harvard's black tackle, Chester M. Pierce '48, from taking part in the game...
Speaking at a Kennedy School of Government symposium, Sheik Ahmed Z. Yamani urged all oil-producing nations to prevent fluctuations in world oil prices by establishing a collective price structure based on the long-term equilibrium between supply and demand...
...private business, opponents of testing insist that mass urinalysis is an unwarranted invasion of the privacy of people who have done nothing wrong. To prevent switching or doctoring of urine samples, a supervisor must watch closely while the specimen is being passed. Even worse, it is widely estimated that some of the cheap tests now in use yield up to 20% "false positives," raising the threat that many people who do not use drugs will nonetheless be denied employment -- while drug users who manage to stay clean for a few days before a test beat the system. Advocates of testing...
Faced with a long prison stretch, Lofaro decided to turn informant. His arrest was kept secret to prevent his associates from suspecting him, and he was able to return to his New York City haunts without being searched for the hidden wire. From 1984 until last March, Lofaro made more than 50 tapes that include conversations between Gotti and his lieutenants. The tapes, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Diane Giacalone, provide "direct evidence of John Gotti's role as manager of the gambling enterprise" of the Gambino crime family...