Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China analysts and even many Chinese citizens outside of the Communist party debate whether Beijing's reforms will be doomed without a Western-style democratic system, or whether the modernizing authoritarianism begun in the Deng era is essential to prevent the wheels from coming off the world's most populous country in the speed wobble of the most volatile social revolution in history...
...Parents are moving to this city and sending their children to other places [such as private schools]," said candidate Michael Harshbarger, adding that the school department needs to market itself to prevent students from leaving city schools...
...international rates. However, the rate to Canada still remains high, so not all countries are affected. The local-use base rate on each line, a subject of student complaint, was also not lowered. UIS officials say that costs from a recent upgrade of phone and data lines on campus prevent them from lowering base rates at this time...
Chavunduka had been hoping that the Zimbabwe Supreme Court would rule the law under which he was arrested unconstitutional and prevent the trial...
...hole big enough to wedge through. Strolling with the youths, Officer Macias cautions them to watch out for bandits and flash floods. Farther on, the cops come upon a bedraggled family from Veracruz and talk them out of attempting to ford a flooded arroyo. Though Grupo Beta cannot prevent migrants from crossing, it has moved against the "coyotes" who guide them, arresting 90 in three years. But the special teams themselves are widely suspected, by migrants and U.S. lawmen, of taking payoffs from the smugglers. "They go after us, but they can be paid off," says Juan, 14, a smuggler...