Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finger squarely on the basic weakness of third-party talk: regardless of how strong the South may feel about civil rights, it "cannot go it alone, because only within the framework of the two-party system is it able to maintain enough political power in the Congress to protect its interests [through seniority on powerful House and Senate committees, etc.]. The third party led by J. Strom Thurmond-also of South Carolina-in 1948 should have taught us a lesson . . . Such movements could leave the section politically powerless, with all that this implies...
Eventually, every U.S. child can expect polio immunization, reported Dr. Salk. If properly administered, he said, the vaccine would give close to 100% protection against paralytic polio. In a 1955-56 study of 4,167 children, he found that only 4.8% had sufficient polio antibodies before vaccination. After the first shot, 43% had protection against all three polio virus types. After the third dose, administered a year later, 98.5% were found to have three-way immunity. Salk emphasized his prescription of a three-shot schedule: two shots two to six weeks apart, and the third about seven months later...
...their derivatives absorb the sun's skin-burning rays, said the University of Chicago's Dermatologist Stephen Rothman, and they can be used in anti-sunburn lotions. Also, they permit tanning without burning. As some South Pacific veterans will attest, antimalarial drugs such as Atabrine also protect against sunburn when taken by mouth...
...private industry's. It took 13 months from the time Consolidated Edison started negotiations with AEC to build a privately financed reactor before the AEC came through with the construction permit. Today, most private companies are still waiting on such essential Government actions as: 1) Government reinsurance to protect private companies against catastrophic damages from a reactor accident, 2) amendment of the Public Utility Holding Company Act to permit individual companies to club together to raise the huge sums necessary to build atomic reactors, 3) a Treasury ruling that expenditures for atomic experimentation are tax deductible, 4) full revelation...
...been to the meaning of democracy. Perhaps the best relevant definition was posed by a question asked by Frederick Douglass in 1889. He inquired in the African Methodist Episcopal Review whether "American justice, American liberty, American civilization, American law, and American Christianity could be made to include and protect alike and forever all American citizens the rights which have been guaranteed to them by the organic and fundamental laws of the land...