Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such acts, Klansmen now try to protect their public relations image, express their bigotry in relatively polite terms. Says James Jones: "I don't hate Negroes or Jews or Catholics. I just love white people. Our forefathers confiscated the land from the Indians, and it looks like some of them are doing their best to give it back to the Negroes. I'm against that...
Such strictures protect the right of a client to seek legal help in his own way and out of his own needs. But in a counsel-conscious age, the system may be a trifle obsolete. One effect of U.S.affluence for example, is that millions of new property owners need legal aid to buy, sell and bequeath. Yet, by all reports, many Americans go on shunning lawyers, either because they fear high fees or have no idea of how to hire a lawyer they can trust...
...plan had its roots in the accident-prone 1880s, when the odds against a brakeman's dying a natural death were almost 4 to 1. Employers later became liable for injuries, but trainmen had a hard time hiring good lawyers to protect their rights. In 1930 the brotherhood opened a legal-aid department - a pioneering plan offering injured trainmen the services of 16 highly skilled lawyers. Stationed around the U.S., these lawyers agreed to limit their fees to 25% of the amount recovered, and they returned part of their fees to the brotherhood...
...profits. When copper prices spiraled once before in the mid-1950s, however, many users turned to such substitutes as aluminum and plastics. "At that point," says Dr. Charles H. Moore, executive vice president of the International Copper Research Association, "copper became a defensive industry." Companies had to fight to protect the markets they had left...
...took no action. Any hope of reaching a common European grain price-which the U.S. wants established so that grain can be part of the Geneva bargaining-was once more dashed by the West Germans, who insist on higher prices than the other five in order to protect their inefficient farmers. With this lack of progress, the Geneva negotiations are sure to get off to a slow start, and will probably drag on wearily for many, many months. Some Europeans feel, in fact, that Charles de Gaulle does not want the Geneva parley at all, and would be happy...