Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrived in the league, no one had ever driven to the basket quite like he did. His jump shot was good, yet hardly great. About a B-minus, thought his first coach, Kevin Loughery. He thereupon worked harder at practice than any teammate to improve it (in part, to prevent defenses from dropping off and cheating on him), and in time he became one of the tiny handful of great pure shooters in the league. Indeed, he was arguably the best jump shooter in the league because, while there were other wondrous pure shooters out there who might be more...
Bloom is a major proponent of using current research in crafting health policy decisions to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis...
...will depart with a stinging dissent ringing in her ears: "As a felon convicted of a grave act of child abuse, Woodward should not in the future be entrusted with the care of the children of others," wrote the naysaying Justice Greaney. There was, he added, a need to prevent her from selling her story. A fine sentiment -- however, that will now be for the British press to decide...
...spiraling arms race here, but we do not think it is inevitable," says Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. The world can only hope so. Before the May explosions, the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff conducted several simulated war games to see how the U.S. might intervene to prevent a nuclear-armed India and Pakistan from using those weapons in a war over Kashmir. The games always ended the same way: the officers concluded that there was virtually nothing they could do to stop the nukes...
Being happy didn't prevent Huang from working hard. She raised her overall GPA to 3.5--without her first-year grades, she would have had a 3.8--and managed to get into University of California at Los Angeles medical school, which she will be attending in the fall...