Word: preventing
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...council must be cautious and watchful even if a tax package is passed to prevent the cuts, Vellucci said. He warned that added revenue from the tax packages could be used for other purposes, citing a case several years ago in which gas taxes were raised by five cents per gallon with no corresponding improvement in state infrastructure...
...depth is the strength in Houston this year, after the addition of guards Mitchell Wiggins, Lewis Lloyd (both reinstated after drug suspensions), John Lucas and forward Larry Smith. But Olajuwon's health problems and defensive question marks should prevent this team from rising...
Last week's move was just a small step toward making the ruble freely convertible to other currencies, a process that will have to be done gradually over many years to prevent disruptions in the Soviet Union's economy. The ruble's nonconvertibility has been a major barrier to East-West joint ventures...
...populist foreign critics, who resent his calls for fiscal austerity. Walter Wriston, the former chairman of Citicorp, whose Citibank unit has more than $8 billion in outstanding Latin American loans, calls Sachs "a paid flack for the countries of Latin America." Wriston argues that widespread loan write-offs would prevent Latin countries from receiving new credit. At the same time, Julio Bravo, finance secretary of the Bolivian Worker's Central Union, charges that as a result of Sachs' advice, "salaries have decreased, the firing of workers has increased, and policies respond to the interests of the business sector...
...government is hounding playwright Vaclav Havel, spokesman for the Charter 77 movement and the country's best-known dissident. Police called Havel in for questioning last Thursday, then allowed him to go to a city hospital when he complained of being ill. Their real purpose was to prevent him from taking part in unofficial celebrations Saturday to mark the 71st anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak state...