Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...package, most on Beacon Hill seem to admit that some form of tax increase will be passed before the end of the fiscal year in late June. If not to save the state from this year's mammoth deficit, they say, new taxes are necessary to prevent an even worse situation next year...
...experience as a witness at her assailant's trial. To many Iowans, the most riveting fact about the series was that the victim chose to let the Register use her real name. By going public, said Nancy Ziegenmeyer, she hoped to focus attention on this underreported crime and thereby prevent other women from being raped...
Imagine the mind-boggling difficulty of hitting a small round ball hurled at upwards of 95 miles per hour from 60 feet away. Eager to prevent the successful completion of that task are the nine men in the field. Assuming you can even make contact (with a rounded bat no less), a swing only 1/100th of a second too late and the ball sails foul. This, of course, does not even account for the pitcher's guile--changing locations of the pitch or putting a nasty spin on the ball that causes it to dive out of the strike zone...
Miller was brilliant in the net, recording 10tough saves on the afternoon. The Crimsondefense's confidence this season in the sophomoreallows the long-stickers to give up longer shotsto prevent easier ones...
BOSTON--Key state officials said yesterday the AIDS crisis has not abated in Massachusetts and more needs to be done to prevent the disease and to treat people who have...