Word: preventive
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...vocal critic of discrimination in the military, to the committee charged with eradicating race barriers in the armed forces. Sengstacke also pushed the Brooklyn Dodgers to sign Jackie Robinson. Sengstacke was considered close to Chicago's Democratic mayors, but refused Mayor Richard J. Daley's entreaties that he help prevent violence during the riots of the summer of 1967. At the time, he told Daley he'd been "giving you suggestions for two years and you've been ignoring them. And now you want me to create a miracle...
...Executive Branch. Lawyer Alan Morrison told justices Tuesday that a line-item veto would allow the President to distort Congress's intentions simply by picking and choosing what he liked in a spending bill. Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger countered by arguing that Congress also has the power to prevent the President from using the line-item veto on specific proposals, through a simple majority vote. The Justices agreed to hear the case on a special fast-track basis, but some of them expressed skepticism that it was the Supreme Court's responsibility to referee this particular argument. A decision...
City officials defend the ordinance as necessary to prevent collisions between pedestrians and bikers. It seems they believe that the danger posed to pedestrians by slow-moving, 50 pound bikes is much greater than the danger posed to bikers by fast-moving, 3000 pound cars. Not only does the ordinance put lives at risk, but it will annoy both bikers and drivers. In Harvard Square, traffic is often bumper-to-bumper and cars are always parked along the sides of streets, so bikers will often have no place to ride, giving students who live in the Quad nowhere...
When another vote was taken on the measure, Rudenstine's call for "no" votes found a silent room. Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, who had voted "no" in the original vote, abstained but later said he had meant to prevent unanimity...
...control Russia's nuclear arsenal are being neglected. Like the rest of the armed forces, the soldiers in the Strategic Nuclear Forces (SNF) are largely unpaid, unfed and unhappy. The delicate computer networks at the heart of the nuclear force are not being maintained properly, and the safeguards that prevent accidental or unauthorized launches are fraying...