Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earlier federal suit NARF's attorneys established that the Non-Intercourse Act of 1790 protects valid Indian land claims and that the U.S. government must protect the Indians while acting as a trustee of their lands. The U.S. District Court in Maine then appointed the Justice Department to represent the Indians in their litigation against the various states...
Premier Adolfo Suarez canceled a long-planned visit to the Middle East. Promising to combat violence "without regard to persons, groups or ideologies," the government at first banned demonstrations, and later suspended, for one month, two articles of Spain's Bill of Rights that protect against arbitrary search and assure the right to be charged within 72 hours of arrest. Police arrested more than 30 people, including Mariano Sanchez Covisa, a leader of the Guerrilleros (who was later released), 15 non-Spaniards and several members of extreme left groups. The government deported another 70 foreigners, many of them from...
Buffett, who worked as a Post newsboy when his father represented a Nebraska district in Congress, bought into the Post Co. in 1973, and perhaps to protect his 10.5% slice of nonvoting stock. has become virtually an unpaid Post Co. executive. He spends much of his time on company business and is a frequent Graham dinner guest. "Intellectually, he dominates her," comments one editor who knows them both. "You remember how her orientation changed to talking about stockholders, profits and the bottom line? That's Buffett's influence." Israel is said to have resented the Nebraskan...
...taken down, disassembled piece by piece and sent to a government laboratory outside Paris for testing, then to a Paris atelier for cleaning. The grime was removed with cotton swabs wet with an aqueous solution called E.D.T.A. On went a coat of Viacryl, a synthetic polyurethane resin meant to protect the pocked and flawed surface of the 800-year-old glass. The windows were put back together, re-leaded, and replaced in the wall. And down came an avalanche of protest. The restoration, it was said, had destroyed the optical effect in three of the world's most famous...
...Implicit in it is basic equality for all members of the University in "free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change." (Ibid.) Self-determination and self-governance are the guarantors of such equal freedom, and the machinery set up to protect the University community from disruption of its members' academic pursuits should reflect these qualities. People's rights are best protected when they themselves participate in the government established for them. That is the basic philosophy of democratic government. Likewise, the people know best what constitutes an infringement on their rights...