Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps Patrick works in easy formulas because he is afraid to deal with something more challenging. Whenever the play verges on some coherent statement, Patrick backs away and throws in a silly one-liner. "It's all right to protect yourself, but not all right to take sides," says the veteran. This seems to be Patrick's method of writing. Using humor as his shield, he avoids difficult questions and entraps his characters in a television world of pat phrases and petty trauma. We don't take these five anguished characters very seriously, mainly because Patrick doesn't either...
...politicians from producing states favor scrapping the controls and letting a free market set the price. Arizona Republican Paul Fannin last week offered an Administration-backed proposal for immediate decontrol; it lost, 57 to 31. Most Democrats, and politicians from consuming states, insist on maintaining some controls to protect gas users against too-abrupt price boosts...
Taking a compromise position, Robert Jones, president of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, praised the ordinance as "an ordinance for progress in Cambridge." Jones endosed strong regulations for residential areas and on new businesses, but urged the council to protect existing signs...
Vitally Important. Sounding scarcely different from the most critical Senators, Huston, now an Indianapolis lawyer, said, "It seems to me that these [intelligence] agencies operate in a world of their own. They are not accountable to anyone. The problem is that you must give these agencies enough independence to protect our liberties and yet still hold them accountable to higher authority...
...Thus, in a house with more than 1,300 seats, a musical scored for only five musicians must still have a full orchestra of 25 plus a conductor. The extra 20 simply walk away with a check. Local 802 Leader Max Arons explains with Carrollian logic: "We have to protect the public from being cheated. A couple of instruments can make a lot of noise today, but the public is paying for an orchestra and they should...