Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wealth accumulates in the hands of a few while a majority of the people decay with misery and poverty. The intellectual elite that was vocal, vital and critical of corrupt governments has chosen to either join the corruption, flee the country or suffer in silence. The army which should protect the interest of the people has become fickle-minded and equally as corrupt as the governments they seek to perpetrate. A new method of corruption, practised by many African governments, is that of the "unopposed-system." This system denies the African the franchise and deprived all other political parties...
Helms stood on very shaky legal ground as well. The oath he took as CIA director to protect the nation's intelligence secrets did not even begin to excuse his perjury before Congress. He need only have declined to testify on matters involving a conflict of these two oaths when he appeared on Capitol Hill; instead, Helms consciously chose to deceive the senators...
...that his murderous instincts derive from his apelike origins. Indeed, they have found no evidence in their digs that man was anything but a peaceable hunter-gatherer before the invention of agriculture some 10,000 years ago. It was farming, they believe, that created settlers with property to protect and fostered cultural differences that led to antagonisms between races and communities...
...that now threatens to surpass Jaws' $400 million worldwide gross. Close Encounters is also a science fiction film, and thus it will inevitably be compared to Star Wars. Since Spielberg's movie cost almost twice as much, Columbia Pictures, which financed Close Encounters, has gone to unusual lengths to protect its investment. From the outset, the film has been shrouded in secrecy to ensure that its suspense not be blown prior to release. Cast and crew have been forbidden to discuss the movie's contents in interviews. Security guards have watched over its sets round the clock, at one point...
...billion worth of imported steel is involved. Additional cases are likely to cover microwave ovens, Citizens Band radios, motorcycles and perhaps even granola from Switzerland. This counterattack is being launched with the explicit encouragement of President Carter, who seems to see an antidumping crusade as a way to protect U.S. jobs against cheap imports without violating principles of free trade. In mid-October the President promised to act vigorously on any dumping complaints that the steel men might bring...