Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imaginative diplomacy. As a result, he has occasionally aroused the suspicion and enmity of the right. The McCarthyite press attacked him in the early '50s because of his association with the "Red Dean," Acheson, and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond tried, in vain, to prevent his confirmation to the Navy job a decade later...
Finally, the declining dollar could rekindle inflation, even as it revitalizes U.S. companies. As the cost of imports rises, domestic manufacturers could see that as an opportunity to boost their prices as well. For that reason, the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve may try to prevent the dollar from falling too fast...
...things could rapidly deteriorate if the available food cannot be distributed quickly enough. "The next few weeks are crucial," said Dr. Goran Hanson, a Swedish Red Cross worker in Addis Ababa. "If food and transport do not arrive in time to keep people in their villages and prevent them from gathering in famine camps, it will simply be disaster. We desperately need food, trucks and planes. We are now short of all three...
Phone companies contend that state regulations prevent them from censoring messages carried over their wires, and many courts have agreed, striking down various efforts to restrict the services. But there have been two rulings that give hope to the antiporn forces. In Arizona and Florida cases, federal appeals courts drew a distinction: government action against dial-a-porn might violate the First Amendment, they said, but as a matter of private policy, phone companies could turn away purveyors of such services...
...press doesn't work, Roby may be forced to use his Twin Towers--sophomore Mal Hollensteiner and Tri-Captain Bill Mohler--together to shut down Stanford's big men. The two centers are fairly slow, and should prevent the Crimson running game from operating at top speed. If Harvard is forced to use Mohler and Hollensteiner together, it will lose...