Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every now and then, the land presses in. Cathode ray insulation can't prevent a direct confrontation between man and the great outdoors. Driving across the continent seems completely safe, completely isolated until the breakdown...
...embassy crisis can be resolved and the hostages are uninjured, it is still possible that the U.S. and Iran could restore limited relations. The present Iranian government wants to sell the 77 U.S.-built F-14 jet fighters that the Shah bought for his air force. Contractual restrictions would prevent Iran from selling the planes to the Soviet Union, but it is likely that Iran could find a customer acceptable to the U.S. One possibility: Saudi Arabia. The sale of military spare parts could begin again. The U.S. still sells wheat and rice to Iran, and in time the sale...
Even as President Carter struggled to resolve the Iranian crisis, his defenders and critics last week began what almost surely will become a protracted controversy over the events that led to the takeover of the embassy in Tehran-and what the U.S. might have done, if anything, to prevent it. Some experts on Iran in the academic world believe the first mistake of the Carter Administration was failing to understand the basic nature of the movement that swept the Ayatullah Khomeini into power. Following the policies of preceding administrations, Carter originally supported the Shah, seeing him as a stabilizing ally...
...period of five months. On one 1978 tape, he could be heard accepting $5,000 in cash from Montella in the men's room of a New York City hotel. Montella, the onetime owner of a marine carpentry company, testified that the payment was supposed to help prevent labor troubles...
...interviews with EPA officials reveal that pressure from President Carter and from regional EPA offices has led to sharp curtailments of the agency's never very energetic enforcement of pollution laws. The chief casualty of this political pressure is the Hazardous Waste Management Division, which has been unable to prevent some 80 billion pounds of dangerous industrial by-products from contaminating reservoirs, drinking wells and rivers. One reason for this colossal failure is the division's miniscule funding, which amounts to less than 1 per cent of the total EPA budget--and is being cut even more by the White...