Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ironic that when the United States is in a financial state reminiscent of that of the pre-Depression era, the government ends a restriction designed to prevent an economic crash? The fact that our economy is increasingly volatile, yet our government has decided to regulate the economy less is ominous...
After that I was certain Harvard would deliver the game-winner, as it had done so many times last year. But Cahill refused to let that happen. Late in the third she hustled out of the crease to prevent Francisco from scoring on a breakaway that would have given Harvard its first lead of the game. That play gave Dartmouth new life, and the Big Green cashed in during overtime...
...plunge over Thailand. That jet was No. 283 on Boeing's assembly line. EgyptAir Flight 990 was jet No. 282. In the two months before the crash, the FAA took steps to require airlines to make two fixes in the thrust reversers used on 767 engines, including one to prevent the accidental deployment of a disabled reverser. One of Flight 990's thrust reversers had been deactivated just before the fatal flight...
They didn't happen fast enough to prevent Ali Asif Zardari from dumping millions of dollars into Citi accounts. The husband of Benazir Bhutto, a former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zardari faced corruption allegations. In fact, the report says, Reed was advised by bank staff to "stay away from him." But a year later, Citi opened three accounts for him. According to the report, when Reed finally learned of the Zardari accounts, Reed "thought the account officer must have been 'an idiot...
...crushed most easily by a brutal monopolist. When antitrust law works right, it can give these enterprising small firms room to grow. "There are a lot of companies that have for years operated in absolute terror of Microsoft," says Sun's Morris. The ruling, he predicts, will prevent "the dead hand of Microsoft from stifling competition...