Word: prevented
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Last month Zumwalt told a House subcommittee that the CDC's work on Agent Orange had been "a fraud." He singled out Houk for having "made it his mission to manipulate and prevent the true facts from being determined." New York Congressman Ted Weiss, chairman of the panel, charged in an interview that the CDC appeared to have "rigged" its investigation to support its view that a large study of exposed veterans was not feasible...
...AIDS cases that surfaced in the last half of 1989 were directly or indirectly caused by IV drug use, and as a result the number of infants born HIV positive during that period has jumped sharply. Says Dr. Jeffrey Schouten, president of the Life Foundation: "If we can even prevent one child from being born infected, it's worth it." During the first week, 62 soiled needles were traded for fresh ones...
...Mohawks of the Kanesatake reserve near Oka have claimed land that the village wants to use to expand a golf course. The federal government in Ottawa rejected that claim in 1986, but the Mohawks demanded further negotiations and last March finally set up a blockade to prevent the extension...
...physician at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base hospital told Karen Scott, then almost eight months pregnant with her second child, that she needed her cervix sewn shut to prevent premature birth. The diagnosis was faulty, and the operation resulted in an infection that destroyed some of the unborn child's brain cells. Born six weeks prematurely, Johnathan Scott is afflicted with a form of cerebral palsy known as spastic quadriplegia. Although he is mentally alert, Johnathan, now eight years old, will never walk or develop normally...
...perfectly clear, at least for me, that the death penalty is constitutional. The Fifth and 14th amendments only prevent the denial of life and liberty without due process of law. When Chief Justice Earl Warren was on this court, in an opinion called Trop v. Dulles, he recognized that capital punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. But quite apart from what the Constitution may provide, if I were in a state legislature, I would vote against capital punishment. The U.S. is the only country among the Western democracies that still...