Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Korea. Repressive presidential decrees prescribe prison terms for dissent. Eighteen well-known political, intellectual and church leaders, including former Presidential Contender Kim Dae Jung, have been jailed for dissent. "We say we're there to protect democracy," scoffs a U.S. official. "Is there any left...
...Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenic Martinez and Frank Sturgis-found another way to make money out of Watergate. They sued Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election committee for $2 million, claiming that Hunt and other Nixon associates had "completely duped" them into thinking that the break-in was made to protect national security. The committee settled the suit for $200,000, and the Miamians declared themselves vindicated...
...really equipped for an airborne rescue operation-together they carried fewer than 200 Marines-but Washington hoped that their presence would have an inhibiting influence on Amin. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell told reporters: "The President will take whatever steps he thinks are necessary and proper to protect American lives...
Even when workers know of the regulations which are supposed to protect them, they may be stymied by a system of employment in which the worker hires out through a labor contractor without knowing even the name of the grower. Laborers are often forced to move on, following the harvests, with no ability to follow up on any claims of illness--much less press for safeguards from further pesticide poisoning...
...though the number of farms with UFW contracts is growing, the union still represents only a small proportion of the state's agricultural workers. The boycott of non-UFW grapes and head lettuce and Gallo wines continues even though union elections are now protected by California law, because no election law can guarantee contracts. Only 60 of the more than 200 growers at whose ranches UFW won elections last year have signed contracts. In order to achieve decent working conditions, the union must be able to negotiate effective contracts, contracts that ensure a grievance procedure, a living wage, a union...