Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bombay residents has no home at all-except for the dark undersides of staircases, cattle sheds and sidewalks. Even the wide Marine Drive with its luxury apartments has its own huddle of desperate poor who have taken up residence among the mammoth concrete tetrapods scattered along the beach to protect the sea wall from the pounding waves of the monsoon...
However, an end of the absolute minority veto is only the first step towards a workable government. The door must be opened for further advances. Cyprus has no way amend its constitution. It needs a method of amendment that will enable the Turks to protect their present status, and allow changes now acceptable to both parties. The larger reforms can occur when Greco-Turkish relations reach happier times...
...million Cypriotes, but also the nations of Greece and Turkey. One step towards preventing further hostilities would be to remove the Greek and Turkish forces stationed on the island. Any clash between these troops could precipitate a war, and their presences on the island has certainly done little to protect the peace, British forces should also be withdraws, both because British interests differ significantly from Cypriote interests, and because Britain has consistently shown that it cannot solve Cyprus's problems. In fact the United Kingdom is partly responsible for the antagonism which divides the two Cypriote communities...
Backed by funds from the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Davis plans to set his 100,000-gal. tank in a mine at least 5,000 ft. deep to protect it from cosmic rays. Only neutrinos will reach the tank's supply of perchlorethy-lene, a cleaning fluid containing about one quarter of chlorine 37. Dr. Davis estimates that out of the countless trillions of solar neutrinos that will be passing through the tank, between four and eleven per day will react with chlorine 37 atoms...
Mann battled to protect such Latin American exports as copper, lead and zinc to the U.S. Between 1958 and 1960, he almost singlehanded brought the U.S. into a worldwide marketing agreement designed to end wild fluctuations in coffee prices. When President Eisenhower and then Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon got to work on the complicated hemisphere-wide development plan that later became the Alliance for Progress, Mann was a principal adviser...