Word: preventing
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...TSAT corrects one more defect in the current tenure process. Harvard junior faculty are currently at a disadvantage when competing against senior faculty from other schools. These older outside scholars have lighter teaching loads and hence more time to make names for themselves. The TSAT would prevent such external factors from influencing tenure decisions and thereby allow more accurate comparisons across institutions...
Assistant Vice-President of Signature Development Corp., in Springfield, James Moynihan, also oppsses linkage. "I am concerned about the constitutionality of requiring developers to follow such guidelines. What is to prevent [lawmakers] from spreading to all matters related to public works," he said...
Douglas Halsey, an attorney for Bayside, said yesterday that the partnership continues to be optimistic about making a deal that would prevent the land from being developed...
...believe the precautions that were taken were reasonable. As with any event involving as many people with such strongly held views, it is possible that some of the decisions made and precautions taken before or during the event could have been improved upon. The steps we took did not prevent the frightening lunge at the speaker, although the deployment of the police did prevent a Tufts college undergraduate from reaching or harming Mr. Calero. Maybe more police officers deployed differently would have discouraged or prevented Mr. Laub's lunge, but I doubt it. Obviously Law School and University officials will...
...greatest threat to Brazil, and all the other NICs, is that the U.S. will try to slash its trade deficit by erecting new trade barriers. To prevent that from happening, the NICs will need to open their own markets wider, buying sophisticated goods and technology from the U.S. Unfettered global competition may be unsettling, but it can boost trade in every direction, and that will ultimately benefit all the players...