Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to help prevent the disease, living conditions in the neglected rural communities of South America must be improved," Clapp said. "By improving people's housing, you can see the immediate effects--that people have better places to live...
Distinctions are in order--the first being the distinction between the blood feuder's demand for revenge, atrocity for atrocity, and Elie Wiesel's "Remember!" Night and day. The first wants murder. The second seeks to prevent murder...
...Ovitz isn't being profligate, as is clear from a story that Seagram's scion Edgar Bronfman Jr. has told friends. Years ago, Ovitz, then an agent, called Bronfman to ask him to prevent the forced retirement of Ovitz's father, who worked for a Southern California liquor distributor affiliated with Seagram. Bronfman complied. In 1995 the two had a much publicized encounter when Bronfman nearly hired Ovitz to run Universal but balked at his extravagant compensation demands. They hadn't really talked since--until Bronfman called Ovitz recently to ask whether he could drop the elder Ovitz from...
...during that time of Prohibition, as drug czar Barry McCaffrey has noted, the negative results of alcohol dramatically declined as fewer people were able to abuse it. A similar argument can be made for overturning Roe v. Wade. If the law were to prevent abortion and stigmatize the procedure so that it comes to be seen as immoral, then perhaps fewer women would choose that option...
First, Loker could serve beer as its only alcoholic beverage, and limit its sale and possession to the area now housing the coffee house, keeping taps open exclusively in evening hours. This would prevent Harvard students from transforming the entire Commons into a loud and rollicking bar scene in the early afternoons--something that, without restriction, it would likely become...