Word: preventive
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Carter said incidents like this one are notcommon, but almost impossible to prevent...
Alarmed by the magnitude of the problem, the United Nations convened an emergency meeting in Geneva last week to draw up plans for international intervention. "We must do everything in our power to prevent a repeat of last year's disaster," said Klaus Topfer, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program. "Urgent practical action is needed--now." Topfer hopes the U.S.and other nations can soon be persuaded to ante up a total of $10 million, enough to pay for equipping and training 1,000 fire fighters...
ANOTHER BOON FOR THE BREAST Just weeks after tamoxifen was shown to prevent breast cancer, early reports raise hope that another drug, raloxifene, may do the same--without increasing the risk of uterine cancer...
...hope United States foreign policy will maintain moral standards," Wang said. "I guess the U.S. has its own interests to look out for. But this doesn't prevent us from raising moral demands...
Ashrawi nodded approval as other audiencemembers spoke up on behalf of the seat-seekers.Finally Dr. Allan S. Counter, director of theHarvard Foundation, told the police officers, whosaid they had been trying to prevent disruptionsof the speech, to allow some standing audiencemembers to enter...