Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decentralized bureaucratic system of leadership. The University was already deeply fragmented into autonomous faculties and departments. But Bok created another layer; he erected a wall of people to take care of Harvard's time-consuming administrative and functional details. While there were only a few special assistants to protect former president Nathan M. Pusey '28 from the bureaucratic flood, Bok created four vice-presidents, a general counsel, and an expanded team of special assistants to handle his administrative chores. At the time of his inaugural, Bok said he wanted to fill all those new positions rapidly and then pay attention...
What was Moynihan up to? Was he trying to protect himself against a State Department cabal? Did he really feel threatened by Kissinger's often unflattering private comments about him? Or was Democrat Moynihan trying to get fired, thus setting the stage for a martyred resignation so he could go after Conservative Senator James Buckley's New York seat this year...
That kind of legislation is badly needed on a national level. Chemists are introducing new compounds at the rate of more than 1,000 a year, and only careful screening can spot potentially hazardous substances before they get into the environment. But new laws alone are not enough to protect workers and the public from exposure to toxic chemicals. What is also needed is a willingness on the part of various agencies to communicate with each other and to act. Federal, state and local officials had ample authority to protect the Life Science workers from Kepone poisoning. No one exercised...
...rescuers should quickly attempt to thaw the frostbitten part; one method is to tuck a frozen hand, say, under the rescuer's armpit. The temperature, in any case, should be about 100° F.; anything much higher than body temperature can cause further harm, as can refreezing. To protect the fragile tissue, it should be wrapped in clean padding; fingers or toes are often splinted to keep them from bruising contact or pressure...
...inevitable testing began. Men twenty years my senior approached me with pointless jokes about decorum, schoolboy excuses about absence, and fears of their ability to give me "what you want." These charades wouldn't help us to face our real differences, and that was precisely their point--to protect us from the embarrassment of assuming equality and then having to confront the sociological truth...