1.   But if the operators are set against discounting it will not prevent the agencies from doing some on their own account.

2.   And nothing the Court says today prevents the agency itself from narrowing the scope of its regulation at a later date.

3.   Barr also said that he intends to research whether he can amend the spending bill that funds HUD to prevent the agency from filing a lawsuit against gun makers.

4.   All advertising agencies are prevented from seeking business with competitors of existing accounts.

5.   Agency officials said that they were operating under a reduced budget, reflecting a temporarily diminished caseload, which prevented the agency from getting up to speed fast enough.

6.   But the order prevents federal agencies from considering genetic information that is merely predictive of future conditions or problems.

7.   But under pressure from business lobbyists, conservative Republicans in Congress had prevented the agency from moving ahead with its rule-writing effort until recently.

8.   Democrats had pushed for measures to prevent housing agencies from separating working families from the very poor, and thus fostering racial as well as economic segregation.

9.   Gore was instrumental in preventing the agency from being melded into the State Department years ago.

10.   Last fall Hinson told Congress that those procedures prevented the agency from hiring the experts it needed, because it could not pay salaries to compete with private industry.