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Word: preventive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another fault is that I miss soda, candy, pie, etc. which I shouldn't miss at all. The way I can prevent this is on agricultural Sunday work extra hard and I think everyone else should to because this produces more. Not only for sweet stuff do we only work for but to make our community become more advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Anguishing Letters to Dad | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...ready for takeoff on another mission within 30 minutes, compared with 60 minutes two years ago. More reinforcements sooner. Once hostilities seem imminent or begin, NATO depends on rapid reinforcement from the U.S. In a true blitz, however, resupplies might arrive too late to be of much help. To prevent this, large quantities of equipment earmarked for units that would arrive from the U.S. are being stored in West Germany. In the first days of a crisis, therefore, transport planes could carry troops almost exclusively, rather than bulky weapons, ammunition and vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Can Move Damned Fast | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

TOKYO--Masayoshi Ohira, Japan's new prime minister, predicted continued troubles for the dollar yesterday, and called for a tripling of President Carter's $30 billion "defense fund" for buying up surplus dollars to prevent the dollar's further decline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japan Warns U.S. On Dollar's Decline | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

...Cambridge City Council last night voted to send two petitions to the state legislature--one that would end zoning exemptions for universities in Cambridge, and another that would prevent landlords from evicting tenants from rental apartments in order to convert them into condominiums...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: State House To Consider City Petitions | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

Even if the legislature passes the bill it would come too late to prevent that construction and other projects which are already underway. However, "it could affect any intrusions they might want to make into residential areas at any time in the future," David Vickery, assistant city manager for community development, said last night...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: State House To Consider City Petitions | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

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