Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning in 1935, he took his beloved motorcycle on a breakneck run through the English countryside. Two boys on bicycles moved into his path. He swerved, flew over the handlebars and fell fatally to the road. Could it be said that in a final ironic effort to protect other's lives, Lawrence gained release from the torment...
...Airlines. The committee recommended that wiretapping, bugging and break-ins occur only after proper court orders. Within the U.S., the CIA would be permitted to act only to protect its own employees or infiltrate a domestic group to establish "cover" for a foreign intelligence mission...
...cheese, butter and dried milk, have been destroyed in the state of Michigan after they were accidentally contaminated by a fire retardant containing polybrominated biphenyls, or PBBS. Furious farmers, many of them near bankruptcy as a result of the poisoning, have accused state officials not only of failing to protect producers and the public against PBBS, but also of attempting to cover up the problem...
Foot and Ankle. Granted broad powers to protect 50 million workers in 4 million workplaces, OSHA got off to an unwieldy start by immediately promulgating as law almost all safety regulations then on the books at federal agencies and organizations like the National Fire Protection Association. The result: an encyclopedic collection of do's and don'ts, 7 ft. thick if stacked together and packed with dizzying minutiae. Six pages of regulations deal with wooden ladders. Sample: "Knots, if tight and sound and less than one half inch in diameter, are permitted ... provided they are not more frequent...
Rare Case. By assembling cars in the U.S., VW can protect itself against further damaging currency fluctuations and perhaps cut production costs by $200 per car, a rare case in which a product can be manufactured more cheaply in the U.S. than overseas. One thing held VW back from the obvious move: labor unions feared that it would cause further layoffs in German plants. But VW proposes to retool its Emden plant, which has assembled Rabbits for the U.S., to make other export models, particularly Dashers and Audi Foxes. German labor leaders finally agreed to that plan...