Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton, in contrast, tipped his bully pulpit into a street barricade. He asserted Executive privilege to prevent his aides from testifying, and lost. His aides invented a "protective function" privilege to prevent the Secret Service from talking, and lost. He invoked attorney-client privilege to prevent White House lawyers from testifying, and lost. By picking, and then losing, fights on Executive privilege, he gave a legitimate right a bad name and has made it harder for future Presidents to invoke it. "All they were doing," says presidential scholar Mark Rozell, "was buying time and buying time...
...what can be done to prevent lions from roaming on property? Torres says anything that attracts deer increases the chances of mountain lion incursions. "Landscape your yard with native plants that do not attract deer," Torres advises. And don't leave garbage exposed. It attracts smaller animals, which is what a hungry cougar is looking...
...what epidemiologists do to protect the public health and underscored the need for maintaining skills and capabilities as an integral part of the U.S. public health system. All too often shortsighted budget cuts weaken the system's capacity to identify an outbreak quickly and intervene early enough to prevent further spread of an illness. Effective prevention requires some investment, and this is more important than ever with so many newly emerging communicable diseases like E. coli O157:H7. JOHN BECKLEY, Director Department of Health Hunterdon County Flemington...
...settlement for unknowingly shipping adulterated juice, we worked hard to direct $250,000 toward further research and consumer awareness of the causes of food-borne disease. We've learned many painful lessons about today's volatile food-safety environment and hope our experience and stories like yours will help prevent another tragic outbreak. CHRISTOPHER C. GALLAGHER JR. Director of Communications Odwalla Inc. Half Moon Bay, Calif...
...history: For more than three decades, something called the Overlap Group, a collaboration of financial-aid officials from the Ivy League and a few other top private colleges, compared notes on scholarship applicants to equalize aid offers and thereby prevent bidding wars over the best and brightest students. Then in the early '90s, the U.S. Justice Department argued that the Overlap Group was essentially engaging in price fixing and forced an end to the program. Now only the government monitors need, through its FAFSA process, and, though the colleges claim their policy is not to award scholarships purely on merit...