Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that more certain and slightly more severe prison sentences will prevent crime mainly because repeaters will be in prison rather than committing crimes, but also because the sentences will have a deterrent effect on future crimes. GOAL members believe this would be the fairest and most effective way to protect lives and property...
...primarily semantic. If people mean that socialism is perhaps a social democratic government and national health insurance, then Sweden is indeed "socialist." The Social Democratic Party has been in power for over 40 years now and has succeeded in establishing an elaborate network of social welfare programs designed to protect the individual from having to bear the full brunt of Acts of God or the Capitalist System. If you catch pneumonia or if you get liver cancer from vinyl chloride gas at work you need not worry about doctor bills. If your job becomes obsolete or if you are paralyzed...
...full pay pending a court decision. If the employer lays off workers, he must do so according to seniority with employees over 45 receiving double seniority. Employees retain seniority in re-employment for one year after lay off. The same group of laws contains measures to protect handicapped workers and shop stewards, the latter receiving time and training for union work at company expense, rights to information and protection against discrimination in earnings job assignments...
Until now, too, the pirates have had little fear of being caught, or being penalized much if they were. The basic U.S. copyright law was drafted in 1909 to protect the printed word and was seldom enforced against electronic banditry. Federal law makes it only a misdemeanor to sell stolen films unless they are sent across state lines or abroad and the shipment is worth more than $5,000; so pirates found it profitable to keep selling pilfered films and treat as nuisance taxes the small fines that might result...
...invested in Cuban gambling, but Robert Kennedy was then investigating Hoffa and organized crime, another reason for the mob to join in getting rid of Kennedy. The recent exposes of the CIA show that the agency has been closely involved with the Mafia since Lucky Luciano helped the OSS protect U.S. ports against sabotage during World War II, to the point of providing immunity from prosecution for certain mobsters...