Word: preventing
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Such refusals to acknowledge the hodge-podge nature of section teaching at Harvard sacrifices the well-being of undergraduates at the altar of expediency. It may be more convenient to treat students like a herd and prevent section switches, but to do so is to fail to treat undergraduate education with the respect it deserves...
Massachusetts currently does not have a law to prevent discrimination based on all cases of sexual orientation, and Barrett said "it was extremely satisfying to know the Senate found the bill acceptable...
Most economists believe a deficit cut is necessary to prevent a loss of confidence that might bring on a recession. The contrary opinion among a few thinkers is that too large a budget reduction would sap momentum from the economy at a weak moment. But that idea seems increasingly implausible in the light of Washington's current paralysis. Says Economist Rudolph Penner of the Urban Institute: "The last thing that should keep you awake right now is the fear that Congress will do too much...
...conversations. He believes it threatens to kill most of the human race -- "it could be up to 98% of mankind." This champion of individual enterprise urges that the U.S. join with the despised Soviets and "pool their resources in a massive research effort to find a way to prevent the spread of AIDS." "The thing about Jimmy," says Olivier Todd, whom Goldsmith fired as editor of L'Express for favoring the Socialists in the 1981 election, "is that he's an English eccentric in the best sense of the term. He's sometimes downright reactionary, but he is also ferociously...
...only authority on the avenue. Clifford thinks that insofar as Reagan is concerned, it is too late. "President Reagan has become almost irrelevant. Powerful forces are moving ahead without him. In the economic field, he will be unable to recover. Our main goal now is to try to prevent the damage from getting out of hand...