Word: preventing
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...effects of computerization are easy to quantify. Take the computerized quality-control systems that the Measurex division of Honeywell Inc. sells to papermakers. The systems continuously measure such factors as the thickness of paper speeding through machines at up to 60 m.p.h. That enables operators to make adjustments that prevent breaks in the paper, avoiding shutdowns that can cost tens of thousands of dollars each. Rick Rowe, vice president of global operations for Honeywell-Measurex, claims that within 12 to 24 months, papermakers recover the $350,000 to $5 million they spend to buy the control systems...
...London. Hearing cries for help, Cruise, emboldened no doubt by the presence of his bodyguards, ran to assist a woman being robbed of her jewelry. Cruise is no neophyte knight in Armani armor. At a 1996 premiere of Mission: Impossible he lifted two boys over a barricade to prevent them from being crushed. A few months later, while sailing in the Mediterranean, he rescued castaways from a burning boat. Also that year, he swooped in to comfort a hit-and-run victim and paid her hospital bill. Just another lucky citizen, saved by the beau...
...spokesperson Frank T. Pasquarello said that police are taking steps beyond the advisory to prevent future crimes...
...suspect that root of feminist objections to the clubs really lies not on any principled grounds, but in the material dissatisfaction with the fact that men have big fancy houses to retreat to and women do not. This may be unfair, but we cannot prevent people from enjoying more luxurious undergraduate experiences if furnished by their private resources...
...your mind out of the gutter, Ken Starr. That's the official word from Beijing. China's Office Against Pornography and Illicit Publications on Wednesday banned Chinese-language versions of the independent counsel's report. Copies of the "illicit publication" will be removed from bookstore shelves in order to prevent its salacious details from corrupting China's public morals -- and out of concern not to undermine Beijing's relationship with the White House...