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Word: preventing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some students actually work to prevent the system from working by providing less than accurate information. Rather than admit their faults, some freshmen write "idealized versions of the truth" on their housing forms, she says...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Suites For Strangers | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

Students might begin with a little skepticism towards those who try to prevent them from making informed decisions of their...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Looking Beyond the Union Label | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...FRIENDS, and perhaps they're not unusual among Harvard undergraduates, signed a petition dealing with an issue they did not understand. And the purpose of that petition was to prevent them from ever becoming informed of the various sides...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Looking Beyond the Union Label | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson was prepared to try just about anything to prevent a repeat of Thursday's 13-point upset loss to Hartford...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: W. Cagers Fly Past Catamounts, 68-63 | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...since then Meiman, 76, a founder of the Soviet human-rights movement, has remained, isolated and in need of surgery he cannot get in the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities point to his once classified work for the Soviet Academy of Sciences 30 years ago as an excuse to prevent him from joining his only relative, a daughter in Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Issue That Will Not Fade | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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