Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising controversy over the sale of American grain to the Soviet Union. The Ford Administration has publicly endorsed the sale but the AFL-CIO's president, George Meany, vowed that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load such grain unless Ford did more to "protect the American consumer and the American shipping industry." He declared that the Administration must come to him with such guarantees and "with Dr. Kissinger at the head of the parade." Growled Meany: "Foreign policy is too damned important to be left to the Secretary of State...
...Governor Rhodes, then running (unsuccessfully) for the U.S. Senate, inflamed the campus situation for political purposes when he denounced the students protesting against the recent U.S. invasion of Cambodia? Had President White abdicated his duty to protect the rights of his students by letting the Guard take over the campus? Was the student rally that day peaceful and legal, or was it properly dispersed by the soldiers? Did the commanders negligently permit their men to carry loaded weapons? Were the students endangering the Guardsmen's lives with their rock throwing...
...debate over New York City's (defeated) civil rights bill for homosexuals: "I think they're deviants and should be kept apart from children." Winnie and Albert Lefebvre acknowledged that a good many homosexuals are probably already in the school system, but opposed a bill that would officially protect those jobs. "All we're saying is don't give it legal sanction," says Lefebvre. "Just don't condone...
...truculent disdain. For example, he refuses to accept Ford Motor Co. ads because "they made a crummy truck," and both a Union Oil Co. division and White Motor Corp. have in the past pulled out their advertising after he rapped them. He also has to pay for lawyers to protect himself against an average of some $25 million in pending libel suits (he has won seven and never lost), and to maintain an electric gate at his shabby Hollywood offices to guard against midnight raiders and subpoena servers. Says one staffer: "He could be taking home a quarter-million...
...well-to-do have long used marriage contracts to protect their wealth from the caprices of divorce courts. But now contracts are increasingly popular among educated, middle-class couples who have their own misgivings about traditional marriage. Feminism is playing a driving role. So is the rising divorce rate. Torn between the need for companionship and the notion that marriage is a trap, many of the young want their expectations and rules for married life clearly laid out in a contract...