Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rights, civil or otherwise, are not and should never be isolated absolutes. No court can ever protect anyone against the will of the majority. When sufficiently provoked, the majority will attack both the court and the minority and redress any such imbalance. I suspect this realization once prompted a Chief Justice to observe that the court did "read the election returns...
...indignant legislators insisted that they had worked at the conference, but the taxpayers remained unmoved. Said a spokesman: "We want standards established to protect taxpayers from paying for extravagant trips. It's time the public put its foot down...
Shernoff, 41, describes himself as "a one-man prosecutor going around the country imposing fines and penalties on insurance companies for illegal conduct." He argues that punitive damages offer the only effective way to protect consumers from wrongdoing by insurers, since claims practices are not closely regulated. In all of 1978, Shernoff points out, the California Department of Insurance collected $7 million for 13,000 claimants; but in just two months last spring, Shernoff won awards and settlements totaling $3 million for 26 claimants...
...long arm of the law does not protect banks the way it used to. Local police forces have been reduced, and the FBI, which used to pursue robbers zealously, is now concentrating on the more costly phenomenon of white-collar crime in banks. That strategy is questioned by New York City Police Commissioner Robert J. McGuire. A bank robbery, he says, "is a street crime that has an immediate impact on daily life." Few bank robbers end up in jail for long, which may be one reason that they commit a crime that does not pay all that well...
...protect its own, the American Bankers Association is holding seminars around the country on beefing up security. Rewards are rising for information leading to arrests. Many banks now use the dye pack, a bundle of money that releases red dye and smoke as a signal after the robber leaves the premises. Here and there police forces are deploying special units to fight the epidemic. New York City has set up three task forces of cops, including one that puts plainclothesmen in banks that seem likely to be robbed...