Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...response to the House's action, Harvard professors have moved on two fronts since last Spring to prevent Senate approval of the bill...
...called on the President to end the war in Indochina, renew the national commitment to full social justice, take the lead in ending divisive rhetoric, and "exercise his reconciling moral leadership as a first step to prevent violence and create understanding...
...neutral airports. No plane has yet been hijacked from the Soviet Union, however, probably because Russian crews have shown a willingness to use firearms to stop them. Nearly all of the hijackers have sought political asylum outside the Iron Curtain. In the midst of the search for ways to prevent sky piracy, their arrival has posed a painful question for non-Communist governments: Is there ever any legitimate excuse for hijacking an airliner...
...steps up its armed interventions or those of its allies in these two countries, the less chance there will be of their being 'neutral' or 'neutralized' in the future. And the more the United States and its allies support the regime of Lon Nol and prevent the National United Front of Cambodia from unseating it, the more they will push this front, and in consequence the Khmer people and the Cambodia of tomorrow, into the Asian socialist camp...
...should tell us what we want to know. And what we want to know is: Why is so much punishment inflicted on these human beings to make them secretaries, students, deans, janitors, parents, professors, alumni? Why these suits that are so ill-suited to our bodies, these conventions that prevent us from coming together? Why do some people acquire wealth and privilege they can't enjoy, at the expense of their poor brothers and sisters? Why are we asked to kill starving people in order to protect our unhappiness...