Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somerville politicians who endorse Vellucci over Howe have said that Howe voted against appointing rather than electing city assessors in order to protect the job of her brother, an elected assessor...
While upstart ventures may run circles around stodgy companies when it comes to rolling out fresh products, they often cannot protect their new markets against giant foreign conglomerates that can knock off their merchandise and mass-produce it at a much lower cost. American companies invented many of the basic technologies behind such products as videocassette recorders and robotics, but Japanese firms have captured the lion's share of the sales in those fields...
...razor-sharp thorns that make the bushes nearly impossible to climb over and are strong enough to stop a speeding jeep. P.T. plants grow naturally in the hills of East Tennessee, sometimes reaching a height of 20 ft., and have long been used by local farmers to protect livestock. Now Barrier Concepts, an Oak Ridge, Tenn., firm, is selling the bushes to such security-minded customers as the CIA, the Secret Service and the military. The Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, N.C., bought 32,000 of the bushes to encircle ammunition depots, fuel bunkers and runways...
...troubles in the farm belt, depressed conditions in the oil patch and unwise real estate ventures all over the country. While the large majority are solidly in the black, the weakest institutions are in such bad shape that they threaten to exhaust the multibillion-dollar Government insurance funds that protect depositors. If that happens, taxpayers will have to come to the rescue. Federal regulators are confident they can clean up the mess before it overwhelms the financial system, but if the U.S. falls into a recession in the next year or two, the problems in banking will grow much worse...
DIED. Elmo R. Zumwalt III, 42, whose father, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., ordered that riverbanks in Viet Nam be sprayed with Agent Orange to protect U.S. sailors, including his son, from ambush; of cancer; in Fayetteville, N.C. Both the former chief of naval operations and his son contended that the illness was caused by the defoliant. "Knowing what I know now," wrote the father after his son fell ill, "I still would have ordered the defoliation. But that does not ease the sorrow I feel for Elmo...