Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After speaking to medical sources and learning about the dire effects of missing sleep, correspondent James Willwerth began going to bed an hour earlier. "Now," he reports, "I'm happy to greet the day for the first time in my life." His campaign to prevent midday yawns is less successful. He tried stretching out in his office at TIME's Los Angeles bureau one afternoon. Colleagues kept bursting in the door, he grumbles, "unaware that a scientific experiment was in progress...
DOUG WILDER (5-6). Virginia rules prevent another run as Governor, so he has nothing to lose by going for the top post. May wind up in exacta with better- known candidate. Could be reckless in the stretch...
...Kennedy School of Government will do everything within its power to prevent a recent federal decision regarding financial aid from thwarting its attempts at increasing student diversity, Dean Robert D. Putnam told students at an open forum yesterday...
...this month, 94,770 men, women and children are dead from AIDS. Thousands of these deaths could have been prevented if these people had known how to prevent transmission of the virus by practicing safe sex, including the use of condoms during anal and vaginal intercourse...
...stop the church from interfering in public health policy; yes, stop the church from trying to legislate control over women's bodies; yes, stop the church from trying to prevent the approval of civil rights legislation that would protect gays and lesbians...