Word: preventing
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...Johnson, saidthat institute also has two policy boards whichconnect the researchers and convey their findingsto legislators at local, state and federal levels.Johnson said the Hopkins organizers have alsotried to coordinate grant proposals in order toconnect researchers in several fields, thus makingthe proposals more attractive. The coordinationalso helps to prevent Hopkins researchers fromsubmitting competing proposals, he said
...City Council defeated a petition to limit development along the Charles River on Monday night, ending a neighborhood group's three-year campaign to prevent Harvard and private developers from building apartment complexes in the area...
...current arrangement was originally conceived to prevent finals from interfering with the concentration's general exams or with the writing of the senior thesis...
...difference between patenting a small bacteria that eats oil slicks and patenting a small white mouse that develops cancer? Both are tools created by man for the use of man. Mankind has been hybridizing plants and cattle for centuries for profit. It would be a foolish, backward step to prevent us from using biological aids to better the environment and the human condition...
...when ill, are up to bucking their physicians or shopping around for lab tests. Insurance companies have more power. Last year Blue Cross & Blue Shield created new guidelines for common diagnostic tests, which suggested that the plan might eventually refuse to pay for unneeded ones. The ultimate goal: to prevent useless tests from being ordered at all. It is a small, first step in the right direction...