Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spotted a teenage girl, so malnourished she looked like a six- or seven-year-old, picking weeds and grass to eat. Emergency food shipments from China, South Korea, Europe and the U.S. are being rushed in, but U.S. intelligence agencies warn that not enough will arrive in time to prevent tens of thousands from starving to death. North Korea, says World Food Program director Catherine Bertini, faces "a major humanitarian disaster...
...students fought back, but eventually all were removed, a number of them bleeding from blows to the head. In the remaining months of the semester, the Harvard Faculty and administration were faced with the immensely complicated task of somehow attempting to prevent the campus from erupting in continued acts of violent protest--all the while trying to determine what exactly had happened in the takeover and how the perpetrators should be disciplined...
...rest of the Brocks' friends arrive, couple by couple (four total), the guests already present try to prevent the newcomers from learning of Charlie's apparent suicide attempt--for attempted suicide is a criminal offense and, more importantly, a potential scandal for poor Charlie and Myra, not to mention the guests. But the bumbling attempts at a cover-up, further jeopardized by a second, accidental gunshot, dissolve into utter chaos with the end of Act One. Act Two confronts all the couples with the necessity of explaining matters to a pair of police officers...
According to Valentine, the only way to prevent the catastrophe is to destroy the present government and social system...
Panelist Cynthia Kisser, president of the former Cult Awareness Network (CAN)--a group designed to advise relatives and friends of cult members--advocated action to prevent the proliferation of cults in the United States...