Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood stopped again, but this time it may not resume so breezily. It has been nearly two months since the shootings at Columbine High, and much of the political maneuvering in the weeks following focused on guns. But now Washington has unleashed a set of proposals designed to prevent kids from watching their favorite stars threatened with grisly deaths. Many politicians are hoping that by reining in violent imagery, they can prevent future Columbines--or at least convince constituents that they are trying to. Americans seem receptive: 64% of the respondents in a TIME/CNN poll said they favor legislation...
Consuming products with folic acid helps prevent certain serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural-tube defects. The U.S. Public Health Service has recommended that all women of childbearing age consume 400 micrograms of folic acid daily beginning before pregnancy. Despite the encouraging findings in the Journal report, there is no direct evidence that blood-folate levels in women ages 15 to 40 have reached protective levels. DR. JENNIFER L. HOWSE, PRESIDENT March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation White Plains...
...have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to reside together," Lowell wrote in defense of a similarly reasoned proposal to prevent black students from living in Harvard Yard, also later overturned...
Endostatin has been shown to induce the complete regression of tumors whereas other drugs may only prevent metastasis or halt growth when used alone...
...most pressing practical concern of the bill is its inherent inability to prevent the executions of wrongly convicted inmates. Capital punishment might be acceptable to those whose thirst for revenge clouds their rational sense of universal justice before the law. But the majority of us know better...