Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Backers of the Delaware law, which passed with only one dissenting vote, say it will not prevent friendly mergers but will ward off hostile attacks whose only purpose is a quick profit. Raiders like T. Boone Pickens contend that the law will merely make mediocre corporate managers more comfortable. Even so, not all corporations are pleased: Black & Decker and Canada's Campeau Corp., two companies currently making multibillion-dollar takeover offers, have already begun to challenge the Delaware law in court...
...about 11 a.m. local time yesterday--or 3 a.m. EST--Flynn said the Soviets broadcast the following warning to the U.S. ships: "Soviet ships have orders to prevent violation of territorial waters. I am authorized to strike your ship with one of ours...
Edward (Dick Robinson) comes home from work minutes before he and his wife Lavinia (Olivia Holmes) are to give a cocktail party, only to discover that she has left him. Though he tries to cancel the party, he is unable to reach all the guests and to prevent them from coming...
Richard Gardiner, assistant general counsel for the National Rifle Association (NRA), said current laws regulating the posession of firearms do not prevent misuse...
MASS Hall fears the public embarassment that would come from a formal Overseer vote for divestment and is willing to go to some lengths to prevent it. Two years ago, President Bok blatantly tried to influence the Overseer election by asking Overseer head Joan T. Bok '51 (no relation) to mail a letter to all alumni criticizing the campaign of three pro-divestment candidates. And last year, the University fielded an unusually strong slate of Overseer candidates in order to prevent the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid from winning any more seats. The victory of three pro-divestment candidates...