Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increased spending. Democratic Co-Chairman Robert Strauss took him to task for proposing new outlays without providing fresh income. Strauss reminded the former Defense Secretary that members had sworn an "oath to deal with the deficit." Weinberger retorted that there was nothing "so sacred" about Social Security that should prevent it from being tapped for defense. An outraged AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland vowed to oppose any such moves, with street protests if necessary. The divisions are likely to worsen after the presidential election, since the candidates have admonished the panel to move in different directions...
...this is not the main thing. What's at issue now is not his mistakes but the line that he embodies and carries out. If he were not there, Stalinists could seize power and nobody knows what would happen. It's necessary to put up a fight and prevent the ouster of Khrushchev...
...University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize," the Resolution goes on to say. Yet the University has done everything within its power to prevent the formation of the Harvard Union of Technical and Clerical Workers before capitulating last week. In fact, Harvard claims that the very rights it seeks to protect, those to "convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate...in orderly fashion advocate, and publicize by print sign and voice," have been used against it unfairly...
After John R. Darsee confessed to falsifyingheart attack experiments in 1981, the MedicalSchool set up new guidelines to prevent researchfraud. The school also has rules to preventconflicts of interest...
...payroll? He was elected. I can't prevent that. ((Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak)) Shamir, who was wanted by Interpol, was later elected and is the Prime Minister. This is democracy. I did not elect Abul Abbas. It was the Palestine National Council ((P.N.C.)) that elected him. And a part of the reason is this, that it was a matter of indignity, national indignity; when Reagan breached the agreement with President Mubarak and they hijacked the plane and tried to put him in jail, that caused a reaction of sympathy...