Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that if these suggestions are followed out in China they will prevent the impending civil war, or subsequent chaos? Hell...
...British businessman has also . . . found ways and means of removing the stick from his back. The growth of trade associations, of price-fixing and market-sharing devices-the whole apparatus of protection, in fact-is inspired by nothing so much as by the desire to prevent the bankruptcy of the inefficient-even if, thereby, the progress of the efficient is also impeded. . . . In a competitive economy, such as the American, when one firm acquires a more efficient machine and cuts prices, all others are compelled to follow suit, whether they can "afford...
...party that they still think for themselves. The militant members did not relish the idea of tame Communist participation in a government headed by moderate Georges Bidault. To appease this sentiment, the party's legislative leader Jacques Duclos (who knows better) permitted an all-out Communist effort to prevent the seating of certain Rightist deputies elected by the people...
Troops of the U.S. 88th Infantry Division used jeeps, cavalry fashion, to prevent a clash between 25,000 nationalist Italians and 15,000 Italian leftists and Slovenes. Said one G.I., nursing his stone-bruised right arm: "If we ever let those two mobs get at each other, there won't be enough hospitals and morgues in all Venezia Giulia to take care of the casualties...
...submerge the veteran almost immediately, the G.I. student rates a better break, be it only a bookkeeping service. Monthly bills could be met with monthly allotments in a simple and uncomplicated procedure that would keep everybody happy. At least this revision would cost the University nothing and might prevent the kind of financial acrobatics that most men are in school to avoid...