Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twilight Zone." To several Senators, that was not enough, and Senator Long, the bill's floor manager, spent most of the week fighting off efforts to broaden coverage. Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff came up with a $180 million plan to give free, unlimited hospitalization to the aged to protect them against "the crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat...
...individual's interests seem more than adequately bulwarked by the Bill of Rights-basically the Constitution's first eight amendments-which was specifically designed to limit police power and to protect the citizen from government oppression. In essence, the Bill of Rights commands government to prove its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt. The state cannot force a defendant to testify against himself; the courts must exclude "confessions" that have been obtained by coercion, even if it means freeing the guilty. As Felix Frankfurter summarized the significance of such provisions: "The history of liberty has largely been...
What the controversy over crime and punishment tends to overlook is that the Bill of Rights must protect everyone-the unsavory as well as the savory-or it protects no one. The goal of judicial reform should be a system that genuinely safeguards the rights of the accused wrongdoer, yet effectively upholds the innocent citizen's right to be protected from the criminal. If it can achieve both these objectives, the revolution in criminal justice will have been well fought...
...Such harsh measures seem likely to cause an exodus of the immigrants, who now constitute more than half the population. Many of them had already become disenchanted with Kuwait because they are denied citizenship and have been increasingly limited in their choice of jobs by a government anxious to protect the 200,000 native (and minority) Kuwaitis. Some immigrants have sent their families back home, moved from houses into apartments and begun saving rather than spending their money. Result: a glut of empty houses, a crimp in the real estate market, and a further reduction in consumer spending...
...there is the 115-sq. mi. Y.O. Ranch. Owner Charles Schreiner III has stocked it with imported game from all over the world: deer from Japan, aoudad rams from North Africa, antelope from India, Corsican rams and the twisted-horn eland from Africa. Since Texas game laws don't protect these exotic animals, there is no special season. For $25 a day the hunter gets clean but rustic accommodations. The animals cost extra?$275 for each animal killed, but $4,000 for an eland...