Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean survived, despite the opposition of powerful foes and his own vacillations, mainly because he had no false story to protect and he had an amazing ability to recall the truth. Yet there were times during the testimony when a date would slip out of focus and "the whole edifice would crumble." There were times when he wanted to forget everything. Once he lashed out at the prosecutors, telling his lawyer: "Don't those bastards know I'm going to jail? I can't keep churning this Watergate crap out. I'm tired of turning...
...taxpayers have some degree of control over what happens, to Washington." The economy will improve, he says, when federal spending and taxes are brought under sufficient control to encourage private investment. Meanwhile, he favors a number of innovative ideas-like factoring inflation into the income tax code-to protect families of modest means. Says Buckley. "I'm the person looking out for the interests of the taxpayer and the wage earner. If people want a change, they should vote...
...beginning of the Great Wall of China (see map page 51). The historic line against invaders is being built anew today. This time the Great Wall of China is not bricks and stone but people and new industry. The borderlands are being developed as a buffer to protect the inner core of China, the land of the Han people...
...away from home. The following description of the Chicago patronage system was provided by men who admit they owe their livelihoods, and often their social lives, to the machine. All the detailed information was necessarily supplied by well-connected precinct captains, and as usual, the names are changed to protect the guilty...
...Since it was created in 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been busily trying to protect everyone's health-except, apparently, that of its own employees. The oversight is documented in a draft report prepared by another federal watchdog agency, the General Accounting Office, after visits by inspectors to eleven of EPA's 60 laboratories. The report says that more than half the 1,329 scientists, technicians and other employees in these labs had been exposed to toxic and other hazardous substances without the safeguard of satisfactory health-monitoring services, which are required by law. One example...