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Word: preventing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maggie is caught between what she knows about herself and what her husband tells her she is. For Tyler, love is seeing yourself in your lover's eyes and assessing that version against the person you would like to be. The problem is that we invariably erect barriers to prevent ourselves from truly communicating and from being vulnerable...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Deep Breathing | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

Brothers gave me my first glimpse into the Robert Taylor Homes, and what life there can do to people. This book shows how utterly degrading publicly sanctioned slum living is. The steel mesh fencing that encloses the balconies of each building to prevent people from falling symbolizes the hopelessness that pervades the project. There's a great view of the city skyline, but through the bars of a cage it seems very far away...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Growing Up Black and Poor in Chicago | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

President Bok and other University officials, however, insisted that there were enough safeguards in the program to prevent the types of abuses that have occurred in previous University ventures with industry and that the program met University guidelines on sponsored research...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Profs Examine Med School Plan | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

...such data quickly and widely available, and no speedy means of sending and matching fingerprints. A network to provide such information could take years to create and cost up to $500 million; making it available to gun dealers could violate civil liberties. Beyond that, McCollum's system would not prevent gun sales to illegal aliens and the mentally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Wait a Week to Kill? | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...early to tell whether producers are going to be able to change the TV program enough to prevent additional fallout. If not, USA Today: The Television Show is going to get clobbered by the very criterion its print twin finds so irresistible: national surveys...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Survey Says: Tuneout, USA | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

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