Word: preventative
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...released from jail a week ago, announced that his book on the "Giscarat affair," as the diamond incident is now known, will be out before next spring's balloting. Giscard's political opposition is scattered and demoralized, and there is little chance that a Gallic Watergate will prevent his reelection. So far, no one is accusing the President of breaking the law. But some members of Parliament are now insisting that his sweeping power over the media should be reduced. With the Le Monde case pending, and with the French press united as never before against...
...predict the new Administration's policies. For example, after sev eral meetings with Reagan advisers, a group of El Salvadoran businessmen went home with the erroneous impression that Reagan had decided to send military aid to help their nation's centrist government fight leftist guerrillas. To prevent further miscues, Allen warned Reagan's 120 defense and foreign policy advisers to be cautious in their conversations with reporters and visitors from overseas...
...hangs in the balance." With that dramatic warning, the Polish Communist Party appealed last week for an end to the labor unrest that had brought Poland to what the party itself called "the brink of economic and moral destruction." More than that, the dread scenario of Moscow intervening to prevent a key satellite from abandoning Soviet-style socialism suddenly seemed very real, perhaps imminent. Soviet troops in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and along the Poland-U.S.S.R. frontier were reported to be on full alert. East bloc propaganda guns were blazing, repetitively comparing events in Poland with those that touched...
...important time of the year for many retailers, who can often earn up to 50% of their annual profits during those four or five weeks. But with the 1980 Christmas shopping season almost half over, prospects are steadily dimming for the sort of year-end stampede that might help prevent the economy's slipping back into a slump early next year...
...justify keeping gay information out of the packet. Either way, we are skeptical of Dean Epps' assertion that he is merely attempting to maintain the purity of the registration envelope. Rather, by altering past practice only when gays asked to be included, he appears to be trying to prevent Harvard students from reading about the H-RGSA...