Word: preventable
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Proponents of the measure maintain that it is necessary to prevent owners from illegally occupying individual rent-controlled apartments and converting them to condominiums. They point to figures which show that hundreds of units have already been sold since the court ruling in November...
...ticket-taker, and although I expected my job to consist mainly of selling and inspecting tickets, I spent most of the evening trying, with variable success, to prevent people without tickets from entering. My partner in this job and I agree that approximately 15 percent of the 400 or so people at the formal tried to enter without paying, and about 10 percent succeeded...
...have spawned their first backlash movement against the merger mania of the '80s. Advocates of tough new antitakeover laws that are sprouting from Massachusetts to South Dakota claim that the legislation will prevent outsiders from looting local firms and throwing residents out of work. Critics are concerned that the rules will entrench inefficient corporate managers and drive investors elsewhere...
...antitakeover trend got a big boost last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, in clearing the way for California to challenge the merger of two major supermarket chains, ruled unanimously that states can sue to prevent or undo anticompetitive mergers. "The court decision is a blockbuster," says Robert Litan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "There are 50 loose cannons out there, 50 attorneys general who can now stop a merger...
Strangest of all, while Miller devotes most of her chapters mainly to Gentile distortions and evasions, she writes about American reactions as though the Holocaust were purely a Jewish question. "While it is now evident that the United States did not do enough to prevent the genocide in Europe . . . the Holocaust is not an American experience," she claims. "Americans did not do it, nor were they its targets or victims." But it was President Roosevelt who did nothing to increase the immigration quotas, and the State Department that refused to fill even those narrow quotas, and the U.S. Congress that...