Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trials were conducted separately to prevent the defendants from testifying against each other...
...roof of a bank and slammed into the lobby of a Ramada Inn. Nine hotel employees were killed instantly and five others injured. The stunned Teagarden, who went into seclusion after the disaster, implored the bereaved families in a statement: "Please understand that I did everything humanly possible to prevent this...
...What needs to be done to prevent this crash from leading to a depression...
...soft-spoken economic forecaster is the ultimate arbiter of the nation's credit supply and thus of the interest rates at which money is lent throughout the U.S. banking system. On the job less than three months, Greenspan is suddenly being forced to make rapid and delicate decisions to prevent the market crash from turning into a mushrooming financial collapse and to stave off a steep recession. Says Charles Schultze, who was chairman of President Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers: "Greenspan is in a very difficult period in which he is truly being tested...
...curbed the malady by attacking the carrier black flies. But in many areas the insects developed a resistance to the sprays. Enter ivermectin. The drug works by attacking the primary cause of the disease, the worms. Although it does not kill the invading parasites, biannual doses of ivermectin can prevent them from reproducing. Predicts Halfdan Mahler, director-general of WHO: "Ivermectin will revolutionize the way countries face this debilitating disease...