Word: preventive
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...first confirming the content of the letter with the writer. Why should the News department allow itself to by any more lax? Granade allows, "Our standards must evolve in this area." With some conscientious thought into these evolving standards; hopefully the minimal guidelines will also be exacting enough to prevent stepping on further toes in the future. Maybe, if we do it right, we can have all the hard news and the warm and fuzzy spirit...
...environmental notes: the vanishing forests, the disappearing ozone, the timidity of the Environmental Protection Agency. Instead the activists aimed their hey hey, ho hos at an obscure global financial agreement of the kind that usually elicits yawns, not demonstrations. The accord is the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, which would prevent countries from favoring domestic companies over foreign ones and allow businesses to sue governments that they felt violated their rights as investors. And the man the environmentalists were railing against was one of the pact's chief proponents, Renato Ruggiero, head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the body that...
According to Tawney B. Pearson '01, arts and entertainment chair of the BSA, taking part in the event was an opportunity to help prevent the Holocaust from ever reoccurring...
...Wrinn, director of the Harvard News Office, added, "Since people come from many states to work here, we have times when we are open on a Boston holiday" for reasons of being consistent. Yet such a theory does not prevent Harvard from observing other local conventions--like Eastern Standard Time...
...particularly tough week to be Newt Gingrich. First his defense of Joe Camel turned into the stick with which the White House has been gleefully beating him since Monday. Today he was forced to back down on campaign finance reform. The Speaker wanted to prevent a House vote on comprehensive campaign finance legislation, but as Democrats came within the 14 signatures needed to secure a floor vote by petition, Gingrich conceded, offering to allow a floor vote. "Gingrich read the writing on the wall," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "It looked very much like he was going to lose...