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  • Engrossing, forestalling and regrating were marketing offences in English, Welsh and Irish common law. The terms were used to describe unacceptable methods...
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  • Leonov becomes the first human to land on the Moon. This outcome devastates morale at NASA but also catalyzes a U.S. effort to catch up. With the Soviet Union...
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    used to substantially change the premise of a series while keeping some of the core characters. Retools are usually part of an effort to forestall cancellation...
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  • fifth season of the American television series Leave It to Beaver aired from September 30, 1961 to June 30, 1962 on ABC. It consisted of 39 black-and-white...
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    or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the...
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    states to twenty-nine—one more than the required twenty-eight ratifications from the thirty-seven states, and forestalling any court challenge to New York's...
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    political interest in forestalling intolerance extends beyond intolerance among Christian sects – or even intolerance among "religions" – to encompass intolerance...
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    River Colony. Europeans began to settle permanently in 1826 when Albany was claimed by Britain to forestall French claims to the western third of the continent...
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    Certain Laws Act 1772 which repealed various old laws against dealers and forestallers in corn. In the Annual Register for 1772 (published in July 1773), Burke...
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  • polymers, fuels, and lubricants, to extend their usable lifetimes. Foods are also treated with antioxidants to forestall spoilage, in particular the rancidification...
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    disappointed. Some believed the sudden announcement was a preemptive move to forestall any vote by the council in favour of a more powerful episcopal body....
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    levels of atrocities on both sides. Colonial military authorities tried to forestall a war against the population by means of a 'strategy of awe'. When a...
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    would prevent Warsaw Pact commanders from sending reinforcements to East Germany to forestall a possible NATO invasion of that country. The plan expected that...
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    "virtually single-handedly forestalling a possible Communist take-over of Indian films". Ambassador Bowles also conveyed gratitude to Capra for "one helluva...
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    southwest flank would mitigate that threat. The Royal Navy also wanted to forestall the threat of a powerful Imperial Russian Navy.[page range too broad]...
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  • Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first...
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    price maintenance to forestall innovation in distribution that decreases costs. A manufacturer might consider it has little choice but to accommodate the...
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    pundits would probably contract the description to 'W.C.'s for Russia', and that we had better forestall this by merely labelling the packages 'Tanks'....
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    supervision of baking and brewing, weights and measures, and forestalling and regrating, from the town to the university. King's College Chapel was begun in 1446...
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    The prosecutor charged that Mr. Weinberger's efforts to hide his notes may have 'forestalled impeachment proceedings against President Reagan' and formed...
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