Word: prevented
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...plotted scam, the Ministry of Finance plans to issue another series of 20-gram gold coins with a face value of 100,000 yen this fall to commemorate the enthronement of Japan's new Emperor, Akihito. Officials are studying ways to modify the coin's design or packaging to prevent new forgeries...
Precisely because Moynihan's proposal might prove irresistible if it ever came to a vote, congressional leaders will try to prevent it from reaching the floor. But the plan has already accomplished much of what Moynihan set out to achieve. It has exposed the gimmickry that camouflages the true size of the budget gap. It could make it more difficult to continue those accounting tricks. By forcing Bush to oppose a tax cut that would benefit most workers, it has complicated the President's push for a reduction in the capital-gains tax that would reward mainly those with incomes...
...change, Ligachev's small victory last week may prove to be his last stand. Gorbachev has called another plenum for next week to discuss how to conduct party elections. The General Secretary is determined to push ahead with a complete renewal of local party organization before early summer to prevent hard-line holdovers from stacking the delegations to the policy-setting congress. As he noted in his concluding remarks to the plenum, "It is inadmissible to tarry now. It is necessary to take the lead in stormy and complicated processes...
Advocates of language pluralism counter that English-only laws are thinly veiled and discriminatory anti-immigrant measures. "((They)) are not intended to help bring people in, or to teach them English, but to keep them out," maintains Martha Jimenez of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They prevent people from having meaningful access to the government to which they pay their taxes." Furthermore, say the pluralists, such laws are unnecessary: in the U.S. no one is more aware of the social, political and economic importance of learning English than those who cannot speak...
...prevent additional seizures and satisfy worried parents, physicians often prescribe phenobarbital. But according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, the drug may do more harm than good. In a study of 217 children from eight months to three years of age who had had at least one seizure, researchers at the University of Washington and the National Institutes of Health found that children who took phenobarbital daily for up to two years had significantly lower IQ scores than those who were given a placebo. Some difference was still apparent several months after they stopped...