Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scientists in the Public Health Service persuaded Congress--and tried to persuade the public--that an influenza epidemic as devastating as that of 1918 was likely to occur this winter. The scientists also claimed that in six months they could produce a safe and effective vaccine to protect against this new strain of influenza...
...earlier the U.S. enters a crisis, the greater the chances for success. Because the U.S. proved its readiness to protect West Berlin as far back as the 1948 blockade, later American muscle-flexing quickly persuaded the Kremlin to back down from efforts to instigate crises. In 1961, by rushing U.S. tanks to the Brandenburg Gate and calling up reserve units, President Kennedy forced Nikita Khrushchev to abandon his plans to change the status of the divided city...
...years of existence, the Environmental Protection Agency has weathered attacks by industry, Congress, the states and consumer and conservation groups. But even thick-skinned EPA officials had to wince at a report issued last week by the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. The report charged that the EPA had failed to protect the public against poisonous pesticides used to control insects, rodents, weeds and funguses. Said Senator Edward Kennedy, the subcommittee chairman: "I find it incredible that a regulatory agency charged with safeguarding the public health and environment would be so sluggish to recognize and react...
...presentations are held in The First Parish Church in Cambridge, at 3 Church St., in Harvard Square. This Wednesday's talk, "Should We Forego Private Property Rights In Order to Protect the Environment?" will feature Don K. Gifford, vice-president of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, Robert Paterson, the deputy director of Massachusetts state planning office, State Senator William Saltonstall, and Lawrence Susskind, associate professor of Urban Planning...
...prophet, and you have to respect their ideas. Like his characters, Tanner seems to have rejected the bourgeois world--the eight of them are brought together as they fight against a bank's corrupt land-speculations. Like the characters, the audience must decide which of their dreams will best protect the dreamer from the onslaught of the real world...