The government places a cap on the interest rates private banks can charge, in effect preventing them from lending to risky start-ups.

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Nor do we have an idea if some sort of media blackout about them would have any effect in preventing this type of incident from occurring again.

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This has a trickle-down effect, preventing younger generations from moving up in the workplace or from moving into the workplace to acquire the wealth they would need to drive new demand for homes.

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We also indicated that we acknowledged the role performed by central banks of different countries, and more particularly, in the recent past, the role of the European Central Bank, the role performed to the effect of ultimately preventing a liquidity crisis of substantial proportions, which would thus affect all countries adversely.

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But a study of more than 3, 000 people, followed for six years, could not find any effect of delaying or preventing Alzheimer's disease or improving memory.

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Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) decision is based on new three-year data from a clinical trial designed to test the effect of Vioxx on preventing colorectal polyps.

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Researchers, for example, recently showed for the first time that a Mediterranean diet can have as powerful an effect as drugs in preventing heart attacks, strokes and deaths from cardiovascular disease in subjects at high risk of heart disease.

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Many locals have also expressed support to Ma, perceiving the long-term effect of his endeavor in preventing them from becoming so-called ecological refugees.

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He said there were several studies supporting the idea that diets high in Vitamins C and E may be good for preventing asthma, and it might be that apples contained other antioxidants that produced the same effect.

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Chris Ford of the University of Bristol, one of Dr Farrow's co-authors, speculates that by preventing ovulation and the stresses that it puts on the reproductive system, Pill-using women may, in effect, be cheating time.

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