Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Supreme Court overturns the Runyon decision, victims of racial discrimination simply won't have the same recourse to law that they have enjoyed for the past 10 years. It's one thing for sporadic racist attacks to occur in a country where the government is devoted to the protection of minorities. It's another thing altogether for the Supreme Court, a governmental check meant to protect the rights of minorities, to be stripping away the rights of minorities to protect themselves against job discrimination. Here the Reagan Administration's true colors shine clear...
Gorbachev has good reason to protect his flanks as the June 28 party conference approaches. Perestroika has drawn criticism ever since he announced it in the spring of 1985. Earlier this year, overt opposition intensified as the economic reforms began to be implemented and his principle of khozraschet, or cost accounting, started affecting an estimated 60% of Soviet industry. Many government bureaucrats have seen a threat to their extra privileges -- special housing, schools and food stores. Automatic bonuses for workers were threatened, which prompted protest strikes. Nationalist outbursts in the Baltic states, protest demonstrations by Crimean Tatars in Moscow...
...While it is important to protect tenants' rights, it is also important to protect homeowners, who may want to leave their homes for distinct periods of time," said Wolf, long considered an ally...
...patients protect themselves? Experts offer the usual consumer advice: grill the doctor about each test, ask if the lab is accredited by the Government or a professional group, refuse procedures that seem unneeded and insist on a retest when in doubt. But few people, when ill, are up to bucking their physicians or shopping around for lab tests. Insurance companies have more power. Last year Blue Cross & Blue Shield created new guidelines for common diagnostic tests, which suggested that the plan might eventually refuse to pay for unneeded ones. The ultimate goal: to prevent useless tests from being ordered...
...President Edward Winchester, 50, a Pentagon financial analyst, advocates a "spiritual defense initiative." Two decades after hippie protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon, Winchester believes soldiers should be the ones giving off good vibrations. The Meditation Club's goal, he explains, is to link enough individual "peace shields" to protect humanity by their unified force...