Word: preventive
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...main feature of the new system is to provide "redundancy"--multiple components to prevent a single failure from bringing down the entire system...
Such objections were becoming a nuisance to fund raisers. Lake had built a wall around the NSC to prevent political concerns from compromising policy judgments. During the campaign, some White House officials believed, as one put it, that Lake wasn't concerned about politics at all. "Tony's incredibly obstinate," the official said at the time. "It's like he doesn't care if the President's re-elected...
...least 17 states have passed or are considering their own legislation to regulate the Net. New York enacted a law last year that resembles the CDA. In Virginia it's now illegal for state employees--including state-college professors--to access "sexually explicit" materials online. That law might prevent English professors from running an online discussion of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In Georgia it's a crime for people to communicate anonymously over the Net, which could come as a surprise to 8 million America Online users, most of whom use pseudonyms...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: While President Clinton is taking up the right cause in announcing new legislative proposals to prevent crooked doctors from abusing the Medicare and Medicaid programs, he could have accomplished much of what he aims to do if he had carried out laws passed in 1996 and 1987 for the same purpose. A new report from his own Department of Health and Human Services points out that the Administration has yet to establish a national data base called for under a 1996 law that would track doctors convicted for crimes, some of whom have lost their licenses...
...responsible for the health-care costs states are suing to recover. And the fact that Liggett will turn over hundreds of thousands of insider documents that states hope will prove severely damaging to the tobacco industry had plaintiffs almost giddy. While Philip Morris won a temporary restraining order to prevent Liggett from turning over the papers, Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore said that won't make a bit of difference to other judges around the country. In roughly three months, Mississippi's case against the other four companies will go to trial. By then, Moore said, "We will have...