Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...POSTURE ABROAD: "I do not believe the U.S. is well served if we go around the world waving a big stick. I think we need to protect our interests, but we need to do it calmly, sensibly and in a spirit of cooperation ... When "Big John" Connally moved into Treasury, he briefly installed the notion that we weren't tough enough, that we needed to teach these people a few lessons and to flex our muscles a little and, by God, they have been dependent on us so long they had better understand that...
...most outspoken against the Nixon and Ford Administrations' aborted proposal for what Adams has dubbed "the myth of deregulation." Adams calls instead for turning "our thoughts to the realities of regulation and the changes that are needed." Complete deregulation, he insists, would lead to cutthroat price competition and protect neither the airlines nor the passengers. Says Adams: "You don't need to burn the house down to roast...
Where is our pride? We export technology. Why can't we import ways to make streets safe? We spend billions to protect ourselves from the Russians, but it is the street gangs in America who frighten me. It's law-and-order and freedom from fear that allow a nation to survive, and I say no money for New York and other cities until they restore safety to the streets. I'm mad, sick at heart and disgusted with weak Government officials...
...abhorrence of injustice, the individual worth of every man and woman and the rights of the people to liberty under the law-that it impelled them not merely to self-determination, but to actual revolution. For both, government by democracy was seen as the most natural system to protect the values that had inspired them...
...believes George when he tells about the dead man, but, of course, there really was one. He had been dispatched by a whole carload of villains led by a well-tailored richie called Devereau (Patrick McGoohan), who is embroiled in an unlikely scheme to protect his art forgeries. Suspense movies are not supposed to make perfect sense, but it is always nice when they come close. Hiller and Higgins toy with sorting out the plot only for the sake of appearances and waste a good deal of energy reaching for laughs. The result is compounded confusion, relieved only...