Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prevent unmanageable credit from reaching the level where students have to drop out, a number of consumer advocacy groups have set up programs to help educate students about the advantages--and dangers--of using credit cards...
...earn perks as well as accruing a positive credit history. Though this may not seem like a big deal now, it will come in handy when you want to finance graduate school, buy a car, buy a house, etc. A negative credit history, on the other hand, can actually prevent you from making future purchases...
Martin said that the change is designed to prevent the rules from getting in the way of legitimate research that doesn't conflict with University policy...
...First they want us to think that religion is under attack using the fallacious example of Cassie Bernall, then they want us to think that creationism is a legitimate alternative to evolution in science classrooms, and finally they want us to teach our kids that the only way to prevent pregnancy is not to have sex. This leaves American youth in Kansas ill-prepared to deal with a university education, in Texas ill-prepared to deal with sex, and everywhere convinced that their elders are complete morons. After all, on the Internet superhighway of information (of which, incidentally, Harris...
...proposal, which was voted down 23-16, was made in response to Adams' increased enforcement of its own restricted dining policy, using stickers placed on Adams students ID cards to prevent interhouse dining during peak lunch, dinner and brunch hours...