Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week a group of investigators for the SEC reported that these men often overcharge and insufficiently protect the small investor, and called many of the rules by which they work outmoded, ineffective, and in need of reform. This was the essence of 2,100 pages of findings in the second report of a three-part series on the financial markets, it followed a thorough, 1½-year study by a team of 65 lawyers, economists and SEC staffers under Milton H. Cohen, 51, a sad-eyed and careful Chicago attorney...
...effort against the Viet Cong, just when it is beginning to go well. Over the past year, government forces and their 14,000 U.S. military "advisers" have vastly increased their mobility and striking power against the Red guerrillas. More than 7,000 "strategic hamlets" have been built, now protect 8,000,000 Vietnamese from Viet Cong raids...
...Mercury "has a commercial package upon which to base a cause of action . . . against a competitor allegedly converting the news items to its own uses in pursuit of advertising," declared the court in a unanimous, seven-judge opinion, which added that "the law will guard and protect against wrongful invasion by a competitor...
Hilton refuses to comprehend bad news or business reversals ("Don't bother me about that," he says), and his top aides instinctively try to protect him from the harsh realities of the world. Says one: "For all his financial genius, he's the kind of man who can't catch a plane by himself." He is essentially a lonely man, and his closest friend is neither a businessman nor one of his four children, but his personal secretary for 21 years, Olive Wakeman, fiftyish, who acts as his chief buffer against the outside world...
...used to their new surroundings, the oryxes are kept in semi-isolation and watched constantly by zoo officials. All food and water equipment is sterilized, and the few visitors admitted to the enclosures are made to dunk their shoes in an antiseptic solution to keep out infection. To protect the oryxes from unfamiliar thorns, all cacti except giant saguaros have been removed, and the thorns of the saguaros have been clipped to a height above the reach of an oryx. Every day the zoo fills out a sheet for each animal, listing weather, temperature, food and water consumed, bowel movements...