Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CONSUMERS: In an eight-point program to "assure every American consumer a fair and honest exchange for his hard-earned dollar," the President proposed 1) a crackdown on salesmen's frauds, 2) a major study of automobile-insurance practices, 3) more measures to protect the public from radiation by electronic appliances, 4) blanketing the states with tougher poultry-inspection rules, 5) federal standards on the purity and quality of fish, 6) a safety program for pleasure boats, 7) clearer warranties on appliances and a federal eye on the quality of repairs, and 8) a "consumers' counsel...
...University is irrelevant, what do the students want their relationship with Harvard to be? There are two stances: First, they want a reversion to the custodial role but with a moral imperative behind it. That is, the University should, by its actions, take a stand against the war, and protect its students from the draft with its own power as an insitution...
...School, they contend, should be reduced to a place where one takes his studies, and no more. The University should not restrict students at all. One evidence of this school of thought is the movement to abolish parietals. Another is the contention of some that the University should not protect them from outside police and should not place them in double jeopardy either...
...demonstration can best be interpreted in terms of this inner conflict. Students were confronting the University, asking it to help them or to reject them: "We want you to help us, to protect us, to throw Dow out. But if you do not, we are willing to accept your rejection, your punishment," they were saying. But the University was again able to worm its way out of the problem with a traditional ploy: it neither accepted nor rejected...
...only at the cost of reducing it to ruins, and turning much of Viet Nam's heritage to crumbled stone. So the Skyraiders, wheeling and diving over Hué in support of the allied counterattack, at first used only guns and rockets no larger than 2.5 in. in order to protect the city's buildings and royal tombs and monuments. When after four days the Communists still held more than half the city, heritage was reluctantly sacrificed to necessity and the bombs loosed on the Citadel. The U.S., however, insisted that the South Vietnamese do the bombing themselves...