Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's the intangible Harvard needs. There needs to be a source of electricity that will prevent the let-downs Harvard experienced against Siena. Enter Basil and Russell, with Seanor and Kinneen...
Cocaine acts by blocking a dopamine transporter, which attempts to remove a neurotransmitter from a synaptic gap in the brain to prevent overstimulation...
...drugs do not have to act in the same way and a slower mode of action might lead to a longer-lasting drug that would prevent the patient from having to take medicine every few hours...
...ValuJet, SabreTech (one of the airline's maintenance companies) and ultimately the Federal Aviation Administration. Volatile oxygen-generating canisters were incorrectly marked empty, packed in cardboard boxes that lacked hazardous-warning labels, and stowed in the cargo hold of the DC-9 without required safety caps designed to prevent discharges that could start a fire...
ValuJet maintenance chief David Gentry said his company accepted blame, but he insisted that it was SabreTech's job to equip the canisters with safety caps and pack the shipment properly. Failure to prevent this incompetence was laid to inspectors for the FAA, who complained that overwork and understaffing had made it tough to oversee the fast-growing ValuJet. Yet an FAA manager said he called for a review of ValuJet's authorization to fly three months before Flight 592 plunged into the Everglades shortly after taking off from Miami. The manager, John Tutora, said his report was ignored...