Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and Amnesty International have issued protests against the Iranian trials. No complaints have been registered by any Islamic nation. Until last week, the Carter Administration had refrained from comment, apparently concerned that criticism might endanger the lives of the 3,200 Americans still living in...
Neither the jokes nor the downplaying of the accident was appreciated by most of the workers who pulled on their discardable yellow boots, plastic radiation-protective overalls and hard hats, and crossed guarded bridges to put in harrowing shifts at the plant throughout the period of greatest danger. For days...
When the Americans returned to Carter's suite, Vance gave what one U.S. participant called "a very dismal" report. Carter was due to leave Israel that evening, and some of his bags had already been put into a guarded van outside the hotel. Judging that it was already too late...
In these tunes of unfriendly takeover attempts and vexing shareholder suits, the corporate board room is no longer the snug, overstuffed haven it used to be. Still, a directorship remains a sure sign of having made it in the business world. Few women have broken through the well-guarded boardroom...
One organization has a well-guarded auto body shop that builds secret compartments; with ingenuity, 500 pocket-size Bibles can be stuffed into a Volkswagen bug. Besides literature, the teams sometimes bring in clothing, radios, even debugging equipment to foil police surveillance.