Word: preventing
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...Souza, the author of Illiberal Education and The End of Racism and a current fellow of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, began by conceding that racism exists in any big country but challenged students to "show me a racism strong enough to prevent me from realizing my potential...
Title IX prohibits sex discrimination ineducational programs that receive federal money.In this case, the United States Court of Appealsfor the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, ruled that whilethe law obliged school districts to prevent sexualharassment by their employees, it did not makeschools liable for students' behavior...
...center's research takes a novel approach to treating the disease by seeking to transplant functional islet cells into patients without immunosuppressants. While these drugs prevent side effects such as rejection of the transplant, they can also seriously infringe upon the patients' everyday activities...
...hobbles substantive debate. People shouldn't be deterred from saying what they really think for fear of offending someone else. If our language is imprecise, we can only refine it by testing where it goes wrong. Let's spark deep debate with this new "Multicultural Issues Forum;" let's prevent this IOP Conference from degenerating into whites on one side and "ethnics" on the other. Let's take risks with our words. Let's take responsibility for our utterances and our prejudices so that we address them. Folks, let's start talking...
...decades, the Federal Aviation Administration has required airlines to provide pilots with oxygen masks and goggles to shield them from smoke in the cockpit. But thick smoke can also prevent pilots from seeing their instruments or the view through their windshields. That concern has moved scores of owners and operators of corporate jets, from Prudential Insurance to Planet Hollywood, to install a $9,915 Emergency Vision Assurance System, manufactured by VisionSafe Corp. in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The portable, 5-lb. units inflate to form smoke-free plastic "cocoons" around instrument panels and windshields. Pilots activate the systems--there...