Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sudden Rush for Blood" [Nov. 22]: Whom are we really trying to protect? Surely not Gary Mark Gilmore. I understand the right of appeal to be just that-a right, a privilege-not a demand to be forced on a compliant convicted person...
...partly genuine concern molded by experience, but they are also partly brinkmanship. The Syrians are now in no position to force a confrontation with Israel; they are too involved in Lebanon. Syrian units have moved no nearer the border than Zahrani, 30 miles to the north, near Sidon, to protect the oil refinery there, which has now resumed operation. Last week, Damascus quietly renewed the Golan Heights peace agreement with Israel for another six months...
Late in the week President Ford's Council on Wage and Price Stability issued a 14-page report arguing that the steel increases were not justified by market demand. The rises, said COWPS Acting Director William Lilley III, were moves by steel men to "protect themselves against possible future wage and price controls." Some executives did not altogether deny that they were jumping the inaugural gun. Said U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar Speer: "The political situation is always a consideration. Let's not kid ourselves." Why, then, had Speer told stockholders three weeks ago that there would...
...immunization program comes in response to a recent government announcement that one dose of the vaccine will probably not protect most 18- to 24-year-oldsagainst swine influenza. The U.S. Center for Disease Control issued a bulletin in November recommending that everyone in that age range receive a second dose...
...plane or walks into a bank to commit armed robbery, and some other individual prevents this act, it is considered justified. If it is justifiable before, why not after? This is not an eye for an eye. This is doing what any reasonable, prudent human being would do to protect his fellow human beings...