Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much a buffoon he is, as long as he has charisma, the people will suffer him gladly. When the dictator of Parador dies, his right-hand man (Julia) forces Jack Noah (Dreyfuss), an American movie actor shooting on location in Parador, to assume the role of the dictator to prevent the citizens from finding...
...times it seems we have almost created a game for ourselves. In the back of our scheming little minds, we begin to think we can actually prevent them from happening at all. With increasingly sophisticated technology, we can begin to label disasters with the tag, "worst-ever," "strongest of the decade," etc. And then we marshal our resources to slay these larger and larger dragons...
Princeton took the lead for good early in the third quarter when Tiger cornerback Vince Avallone blocked Cornell punter Tom Korbin's kick at the Big Red 20-yard line. Several Princeton players chased the ball into the end zone, but Korbin pushed it out of bounds to prevent the Tigers from recovering it for a touchdown. The safety gave Princeton a 16-14 lead...
...Catholic Church teaches that no outside agent, be it pill, diaphragm or condom, can be used to prevent conception, which is the "natural" end of sexual intercourse. But a couple may licitly refrain from conjugal relations during a woman's fertile period, which usually lasts ten to twelve days during each menstrual cycle. The improved way of precisely determining those days is known as the ovulation method, or Billings mucus method, which was introduced by and named for an Australian Catholic couple in the 1970s. Using it, a woman carefully monitors changes in her cervical mucus to determine when...
...contract negotiations; the University has already dragged out past union election bids for as long as two years--decreasing awareness of the issues among staff and devaluing worker choice. So much for Bok's former support of unions' and workers' rights. Apparently, administrators sacrificed these ideals in order to prevent their underlings from gaining a measure of power...