Word: preventing
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Each month American Rifleman, the journal of the National Rifle Association, features about a dozen such accounts of armed citizens defending themselves against criminals. Based on newspaper clippings submitted by N.R.A. members, the stories dramatically show how a gun can sometimes prevent a crime and perhaps even save a victim's life...
American officials think they know the locations among which the hostages are moved, like peas in a giant, high-stakes shell game. But even if they were found, their guards would be likely to kill them before the rescuers could prevent it. "We've considered going in for the hostages time and time again for years," says a senior Administration official. "But it's just an exceptionally difficult environment in which to operate." Indeed, the U.S. reportedly knew where Higgins was for several months last year, but Ronald Reagan refused the Pentagon's pleas to be allowed...
...paint goes on thickly but not with abandon. The surface seems to store light, like stone. It is opaque; you can't see through it or even into it. It is not about space. Besides, the inlaid, modular, even puzzle-like surfaces of Scully's recent canvases prevent the eye from roaming them too freely. Stray out of one box and you finish in another, not on a free horizon. Hence the density, the lack of spaces between things, which adds to the gravity of Scully's work. It has something to do with the largeness of architecture...
Estrogen came into favor many years ago because it helped prevent osteoporosis and appeared to guard against heart disease. But it was discovered that estrogen increased the risk of uterine cancer. To lower the odds of contracting uterine cancer, many doctors added progestin to the treatment, and it was hoped that the drug would also help reduce any risk of breast cancer associated with estrogen alone. The drawback to progestin seemed to be that it reduces some of the benefits of estrogen, in particular the apparent protection against heart disease. Now the possibility of a breast- cancer risk has further...
...eleventh-hour amends are unlikely to save the exchanges from increased regulatory scrutiny. Last week the House Agriculture Committee voted to boost the budget of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees the Chicago markets, from $34.7 million to $44.5 million by 1991. And in a step designed to prevent front-running, the committee moved to partly restrict brokers from trading for their own and their clients' accounts at the same time...