Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convicted of converting to another faith for nonspiritual benefit may spend three years behind bars. Explaining his country's first antimissionary law, Orthodox Knesset Member Meir Abramowicz, the bill's sponsor, says: "We are the remnant of millions of Jews from the past. We merely want to protect our children." But Israel's 80,000 Christians-not to mention many of Abramowicz's own countrymen who are concerned about civil rights, American good will and religious harmony-think the new bill is repressive, badly written, ill-timed and illadvised...
...modern cowboy life are framed by facts - about beef consumption (Americans ate 27 billion lbs. of it in one year), ranching technology, federal meat-grading standards and the quirks in Texas law. Cattlemen, for example, don't have to fence their animals in. Farmers who want to protect their crops have to fence cattle out. Kramer achieves the intended effect: to show the American cowboy riding off, not into a glowing sunset but into a haze of statistics...
Northeastern in tough. Last year's indoor meet was of the razor edge variety, boiling down to the final two events--the relays. Harvard needed a sweep to win; Northeastern needed just one victory to protect its meager three point lead. It could have gone either way, but it went Northeastern's. The Huskies swept both events, winning the meet...
Everybody's favorite agency to hate is OSHA. "It is a four-letter word," says Congressman George Hansen, an Idaho Republican. OSHA was set up to protect 50 million workers from safety hazards in their 4 million places of work. People who are self-employed are excluded from OSHA's scrutiny; so are farmers with ten or fewer workers. Safety in some kinds of employment?mining, railways, airlines, highways, atomic energy?is regulated by other federal agencies. An estimated 4,500 workers died in 1976 from accidents or disease related to their jobs (down from...
...birds breed. Its last important section is a series on the world's major ocean areas, tracking origins of the warm Mediterranean Sea and the frigid Arctic Ocean, assaying values of flora, fauna and inanimate components of the marine world, outlining what must be done to preserve and protect them...