Word: prevented
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This is not easy to do, even with good visibility. Since regular jet flights started two years ago, no U.S. commercial jet has cracked up seriously on landing, but there have been perilously close undershoots and overshoots because of pilot misjudgment. To prevent such unpleasant incidents, the Federal Aviation Agency thoroughly tested five visual-approach aids, and it has finally recommended one that was developed by Britain's Royal Aircraft Establishment. Last week New York's International Airport offered runways to be equipped with the RAE system so that pilots can try it out for themselves...
Kennedy and the FRB have recently grown closer in their views about curbing gold speculation on foreign markets. To maintain the dollar's value, Kennedy has called for the "free sale" of U.S. gold on markets abroad to prevent speculation, a move that many foreign bankers believe would quickly end it. The Treasury, which previously opposed such free sale, three weeks ago informed the Bank of England that it had no objection to the bank's selling gold to keep the market orderly, and that the bank could replace such gold from U.S. stocks. Last week gold...
...struggle to prevent the reappearance of "the exclusive regime of the parties," De Gaulle echoed this antique. For a year following Liberation, he exercised supreme powers, Flowing only consultative powers to the appointive assembly he had established. By the summer of 1945, however, the war was over, and De Gaulle had faced with upcoming elections to Constitutional Assembly...
March 10: Director of Dining Halls Ezra Taft Benson announces his One Point Program to Halt Board Riscs and Prevent Illnesses Caused by Food. Proposes that students be paid $.50 per meal for not eating...
...protective advice: "Wash your hands." Antibiotics have no effect, and once the disease takes root, doctors can do nothing but put their patients to bed, forbid alcohol, treat their symptoms and feed them a nutritious, vitamin-rich diet. In severe cases, ACTH and cortisonelike drugs may help to prevent coma and clear up jaundice...