Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southern Baptist Convention, to his office. He wrote 26 drafts at the stand-up desk in the basement of the brick house he rents on the campus of the NIH. He numbered the copies he took to a meeting at the White House and collected all of them to prevent leaks. The next day, Oct. 22, 1986, he released the report at a packed press conference; 16 million copies of the report and 107 million copies of an AIDS pamphlet are in print...
...Planning Board of Cambridge is currently suing the Zoning Board of Cambridge over the situation," said Dowds. "Basically the city had to hire two lawyers, and it's now spending a lot of time and money suing itself. The amendment to the ordinance would prevent that from happening again...
David A. Bell '89 is a Physics concentrator who heard about SafeStreets through a friend. "I've been working for the program since it started," says Bell. Despite the slow nights, Bell feels that SafeStreets is well worth his time. "If we prevent even one assault, it's worth it," he says...
...Amazon Basin. For decades, Brazilian governments have sought to protect from foreign exploitation the vast rain forest's gold and minerals, oil and gas, hardwoods and cattle ranges. The great push to settle and industrialize the Amazon has been propelled in part by the government's determination to prevent neighboring countries and multinational corporations from making off with the riches that Brazilians regard as their national patrimony. Despite the precautions, however, the dreaded foreign invasion has finally come. Its name: environmentalism...
...might be better if the U.S. had a parliamentary system in which the Executive and Legislative branches were always under the same control. Not only would that avoid paralysis through partisan disagreement; it would also prevent the evasion of responsibility that is the real cause of paralysis in our Government. Negotiations on the budget, for example, are more like thumb wrestling than arm wrestling: the opponents don't really disagree about the destination; they just know that whoever goes first loses...