Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passive watching is interrupted when she is given a child. Emily, a protect. It isn't clear why Emily should be the narrator's responsibility--a man drops the girl off and that's that. Such details are unimportant when the world is dissolving, and, like the narrator herself, we don't ask why Emily is given her, for the child's need for some kind of protection is clear. Emily, the twelve-year-old-girl-woman, belongs to the new age in a way the narrator cannot. She remembers only the present state of the world...
...tente with nature" and pledged his commitment to clean air and water: "As long as I have anything to say about it, this country's symbol will never be an empty beer can in a river of garbage." On the other hand, Ford continued, efforts to protect the environment might have to be eased in order to increase the nation's supply of energy and improve the economy-the same philosophy that the President expressed in May when he vetoed a bill to control the ecological damage done by strip mining for coal. The result would...
...could avoid that by arranging for his client to borrow $800 from a finance company, using the car as collateral. If this is done, the car has no value except to the holder of the mortgage-i.e., the finance company-so it will not be taken away. To protect the borrowed $800, the client then deposits it in an S and L account, which is exempt from seizure. After being discharged of his debts by the court, the freshly minted bankrupt withdraws his $800, pays off the loan and thus keeps his car-entirely legally. Using such techniques...
...efforts on behalf of Soviet Jews. The league lost its case at the trial when the judge agreed with the Justice Department that the bugging was "a proper exercise of the President's constitutional authority to conduct the nation's foreign relations and his power to protect the national security...
...pamphleteer promptly ran off with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook, daughter of a London tavernkeeper. With Harriet came an older sister, eager to protect this new family tie with the aristocracy, plus Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Shelley's best friend at Oxford. The odd ménage was shattered several years later when Shelley met Mary Godwin, daughter of the genteel radical, William Godwin. He eloped with her-and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont-generously inviting Harriet to join them as a "spiritual" sister. She refused. Shelley and his new entourage set out on years of restless travel, ending with...