Word: preventive
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...ideology which seeks to defend the legacy of American apartheid and white supremacy: institutional racism. Instead of acknowledging the effects of racism and seeking to propose solutions, Leo brays about "bad publicity" and "questionable evidence." He fears that companies will "lurch toward a quota system," which may prevent discrimination lawsuits but will undermine meritocracy...
Despite Leo's distaste for discrimination lawsuits, the Texaco case sets a healthy precedent. If corporations will not combat racism on moral grounds, perhaps being forced to pay millions of dollars in atonement will spur American businesses to combat and prevent injustice...
...McCaffrey made clear in his speech, it is the "protection" of our nation's youth which underlies national drug policy, not any political weakness of our pot-smoking (but non-inhaling) President. McCaffrey empathizes with sixth graders who face that terrible choice whether to smoke weed. In order to prevent this oh-so-dismal decision-making, he wants America to spend $16 billion next year to prevent the shipment of drugs to white suburbia--which will have them anyway...
...area. While the F-16 pilot?s commander quickly instructed him to veer away from the airliner, Air Force officials so far have no plans to reprimand the pilot for hanging frighteningly close to the commercial plane after it was obvious that it was an innocent craft. To prevent future mishaps, Major General Donald Peterson said the Air Force would give regular training for pilots on civilian Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems; would implement new procedures to rely more heavily on radar and contact with controllers in identifying unexpected aircraft, and will conduct a special review of military operations...
...same time that Selkoe and his colleagues' work adds to the weight of studies indicating that A. beta is an early sign of A.D., scientists have begun the search for a mechanism to prevent the formation of the neuritic plaques in the first place...