Word: preventer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jersey superior court judge can deny the right of a couple to adopt a child on the basis of their being atheists [Dec. 7], what then prevents the state from taking a child from natural parents whose convictions likewise "prevent the child's freedom to worship as she sees fit"? There may be a distinction, but if Judge Camarata's decision is upheld, there may not be one for long...
CAMBODIA. Antiwar Senators including J. William Fulbright succeeded in attaching amendments to two separate bills meant to prevent President Nixon from using any more funds to send U.S. troops or military advisers into Cambodia: a $66 billion defense appropriations measure, and a $1 billion foreign aid authorization. The language in the defense bill was so altered by a House-Senate conference committee that the limitation was rendered ineffective-and another Senate wrangle was shaping up over that...
...think you misinterpreted your last order," Brown shot back, "you are to take all precautions to prevent the incident from occurring." Brown was suggesting, on order from Admiral Ellis, that Eustis was to ensure that Kudirka would not jump overboard by returning him to the Soviets. Eustis was also informed that this hard line was "in the interest of not fouling up any of our arrangements as far as the fishing situation is concerned...
...scrawled messages on tanks and on walls: "We are workers and not hooligans." "We want more wages." In Warsaw, after workers in the Zeran auto works staged a sympathetic sitdown, truckloads of ORMOs-Poland's blue-overalled, blue-bereted special workers police -rolled into factories to halt or prevent such demonstrations...
...Federal Reserve's prime job is to prevent just such disasters. After Texas Congressman Wright Patman, an archenemy of banks and railroads, blocked the Nixon Administration's efforts to prop up the Pennsy with a $200 million loan guarantee, the Federal Reserve moved swiftly to steer the financial system out of danger. The board made a special point of offering to advance credit to commercial banks through its "discount window," providing them with much needed funds for relending to corporations that had to pay off commercial paper. The mechanism was conventional, but the need for speed...