Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The language of rape--language that we all use and influence--can be amended for and against the protection of women's rights. Women's rights are currently losing, with the help of network correspondents, State Department personnel, custody judges' clerks, and ordinary viewers and readers like you and me...
Labor unions, women's groups and civil libertarians denounced the decision, which gives a boost to the fetal-protection policies that are spreading throughout the chemical, rubber, semiconductor and automotive industries. Challenges to such employment practices keep arising, though, and before long one may wind up in the U.S. Supreme...
Part of the courtship involves paying lip service to hot-button right-wing issues like abortion, tuition tax credits and the flag, though Bush has done little or nothing to advance those causes. For example, in June he called for a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court's ruling...
The thicket of state insurance laws makes it possible in some cases for private insurers to find ways to keep profits up and payments for AIDS care down. In 1985 one firm, the Great Republic Insurance Co., even issued an "AIDS profile" to its agents, instructing them to treat differently...
The Law School also provides the Low Income Protection Plan (LIPP) for graduates entering low-paying jobs. That program forgives or significantly reduces the debts of alumni in the public interest sector.