Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...even if we can't become Nittany Lions, we can do better. And we will, if we come to grips with the deep-rooted anxieties that prevent us from cheering for the team...
...Harvard professors made national news when they reported that they had synthesized a molecule that in laboratory tests had prevented AIDS from spreading. Professor of Chemistry Stuart L. Schreiber, Professor of Pediatrics Steven J. Burakoff and Associate Professor of Medicine Robert W. Finberg say it is too soon to know the drug's potential, and warn that any testing for humans is at least a year away. Nevertheless, Burakoff said the drug "holds out the hope that it might prevent the spread of AIDS...
...peace. His first move was to draw attention to the plight of his captives, whom he referred to as "guests of the Iraqi people." He paid a grotesquely avuncular propaganda visit to 25 British hostages, inquiring about their welfare and explaining that they were being detained to prevent a war from breaking...
...days later Saddam held an impromptu news conference in Baghdad with journalists accompanying Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, who secured the release of 80 Austrian hostages. The foreign nationals he was holding, Saddam said, are "to prevent attacks from happening." Saddam vowed to remain in Kuwait and derided the kingdom's former rulers for "sitting around gambling tables wasting millions." U.S. and Western intervention in the gulf was "naked aggression," Saddam charged, warning, "Whoever collides with Iraq will find columns of dead bodies, which may have a beginning...
...paradise. Last year the Senator from North Carolina huffed and tut-tutted about state-supported pornography until a cowed Congress mandated that artists sign a purity oath before receiving federal funds. Now he gets to watch the sorry spectacle of a few theater people conspiring to prevent an actor from plying his craft. With all the best intentions, they are doing Helms' proscriptive work for him and proving that you don't have to be a philistine to get the censor's itch; in the process they threaten to deprive many actors of good jobs and the American public...