Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea behind India's policy toward foreign news agencies is to protect its only remaining domestic news agency, Press Trust of India, from ruinous competition. It is an ironic fact that by trying to help Press Trust of India (which depends heavily for revenue on the government-owned All India Radio), India is also giving a near monopoly of foreign news service to the agency that supplies Press Trust: Britain's Reuters Ltd., long a symbol to Indians of British imperialism. It is even more ironic that India, which won its national freedom so dearly, has created...
...world's biggest-at Tuscumbia, Ala., and said that Parsons is indeed "qualified, technically competent and adequately equipped." Parsons' evaluated bid of $13 million was $6,300,000 below the nearest domestic bidder. TVA found "the import duty [12% to 17%] is adequate to protect U.S. manufacturers against differences in labor costs." What about national security? Replied TVA: Total war would probably knock out foreign and U.S. plants alike, thus "early repair or replacement would seem unlikely no matter where the unit was built...
...self-styled "extremist of extremists," who has been leading the campaign against federation on the grounds that once the federation becomes independent, Nyasaland will be dominated by the apartheid-minded white minority of Southern Rhodesia. Scores of his followers, who regard him as their Messiah, gathered around to protect his house, but tear gas quickly dispersed them. Wrapped in a bathrobe, Dr. Banda was whisked to an airport and flown into exile in Southern Rhodesia...
...ambled around the blockhouse. The countdown had begun at 12:06 p.m. and was going well. He looked up at the rocket. "Very dignified," he observed approvingly. Later, as is his custom, he patted it affectionately before taking his position behind the three sheets of thick tempered glass that protect blast-off watchers...
...Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." Some chemicals are poisonous over the years even in minute doses, and these the FDA will ban outright. But in the main, under its new legislative charter to protect the public health, the FDA will be applying old Paracelsus...