Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...University desires to allocate resources to prevent people from engaging in sexual activity in the Science Center bathroom, it has at its disposal any number of vastly more humane and less destructive tactics...
...knowledge, the Harvard University gay community has never been consulted on the issue of how to deal with the Science Center bathroom. We would have suggested that the University take any number of less cruel measures to prevent sexual activity in the bathroom, (e.g. posting signs prohibiting sexual conduct; posting a uniformed guard rather than an undercover agent...
...evil people who won't be deterred from their nefarious doings by what might be considered by the self-deceived as special circumstances. His iron cross, first class and all, did not save my father from arrest. The fact that my school had close links with France did not prevent it from getting rid of its Jewish students...
...TERM "greenhouse effect" is used to represent the accumulation of trace gases in the atmosphere. These gases prevent the release of the sun's radiation back into space and trap the heat in the earth's atmosphere, leading to global warming. Without greenhouse gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide, our planet would reach a much lower average temperature and would be unable to support life as we know...
...different name -- was hailed by environmentalists as a big victory. The U.S., still officially committed to the Wellington agreement, did not go along with the new initiative. But some Administration officials are said to be opposed to the minerals convention, and Senator Gore claims he has the votes to prevent its ratification in the Senate. Observes Gore: "The whole theory of protecting Antarctica with mining that is carefully circumscribed by safety procedures is the approach that failed in Alaska's Prince William Sound. We shouldn't make the same mistake again...