Word: preventing
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...guidelines are effective immediately, but agencies will be given 180 days to determine which jobs are sensitive enough to require testing. Attorney General Edwin Meese, who unveiled the program with Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis Bowen, insisted the procedures were designed to prevent the dismissal of innocent employees. But federal employees' unions denounced the plan as a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures." Robert Tobias, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, complains that the guidelines imply federal workers are "potential cheats." Says Tobias, whose union has succeeded at least temporarily, in forcing...
...television camera zoomed in and a concerned nation watched, a somber Brazilian President Jose Sarney dispensed with niceties and got right to the point: "I want to announce that the country is suspending payments of interest on its foreign debt." The action was necessary, he said, to prevent Brazil from running out of money. Still, he continued, "it was not easy to make a decision of this magnitude...
What is the strategic case against supporting a resistance that is trying to prevent the consolidation of a second Cuba? Some isolationists might argue that the "loss" of Third World countries does not really matter, and that we can sit behind a palisade of 10,000 nuclear warheads and not care who controls Central America. But the main opposition case is different. It does matter, say the Democrats. And the Sandinistas, they concede in speech after speech, are indeed Marxist-Leninist, expansionist, and pro-Soviet. But they can be contained by American power...
...what of international morality? Even if it is strategically important for the U.S. to prevent a Communist state in Central America, do not American values prevent us from overthrowing another government? In principle, no. It depends on the case. The 1983 overthrow of the thug government of Grenada, for example, surely qualified as one of the more moral exercises of American foreign policy...
Thirty demonstrators were arrested last week while trying to prevent the eviction of a woman from an apartment building owned by Columbia University...