Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Supporters of the bill said the substitute proposal is "innocuous and ineffective," and an attempt to prevent passage of any gay rights bill before the Senate disbands next month...
...spawned more than half a dozen important investigations. One was a special three-person task force announced on Oct. 22 by President Reagan and headed by New York City Investment Banker Nicholas Brady. Its mandate: to study the market procedures that led to the crash and recommend ways to prevent a recurrence. Two other probes were started by the watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to study the extravagant volatility of stock and futures markets during the crash. Other studies of market behavior were being sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago...
...James Courter, (R-N.J.), said the majority also rejected three specific Republican recommendations he said were intended to prevent leaks of classified information...
...even bad conditions couldn't prevent good results for the Crimson...
...become abundantly clear during the last two years' intermittent State of Emergency. Behind a facade of new elections, real power has devolved to a shadowy set of appointed council and to the military-dominated National Security Management System. (6) Outside white-dominated political channels, the government has sought to prevent any mobilization by South Africans seeking more fundamental change; at least 30,000 people, including some 10,000 children, have been detained, and more than 2500 people have been killed. According to another South African political scientist, key South African idealogues found the 'Brazilian option' appealing "...because it endows...