Word: preventing
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...instruction Harvard offers. Those who do not excel are of particular concern. In making this comment, we recognize that there is a certain inevitability here, that not all students can be expected to perform at their peak all of the time, and that personal circumstances are bound to prevent a fair number from doing so, perhaps throughout their undergraduate years. But we sense that there are steps which can be taken to assist more effectively the less agressive, the mediocre and poor performer...
Bicyclists also complain about the theft of bikes and bike parts. Many of them say they have to take special precautions to prevent their bikes from being stolen...
...hefty fees at graduate schools also prevent many teachers from going back to school. Even people who win the Conant fellowships must pay about $4000 towards their tuition and the fellowship is good ony for one year, the traditional length of a master's degree program. However, students who want to earn a doctorate must generally study for two years and then write a thesis...
...landmark study showing that aspirin can help prevent heart attacks was good news for most Americans last month. But the headlines came one day too soon for the influential New England Journal of Medicine, which published the original report. Newspapers and magazines routinely receive advance copies of the Journal each week on Monday but abide by an agreement not to report its contents before Wednesday at 6 p.m. The London-based Reuters news service seemed to violate the embargo by reporting the aspirin study on a Tuesday, more than 24 hours early. The incident has provoked a heated dispute over...
...knew we wouldn't allow the boat to reach Israel," Corfu said on Israel radio. "If we could prevent its departure, that was obviously the right thing...