Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the connection is in goals. All the incidents described here have to do with things people did with the intention of achieving noble ends: Steven Rosenfeld wanted to become a doctor; the leaders of the student security patrol wanted to protect fellow students; and President Bok's advisers to make him more effective...
...THING ABOUT the three heavies in this scandal is that they all have a precious scrap of integrity that they are anxious to protect with every manipulative bone in their bodies. Kearns has a tenured chair on the line. Glikes has a fine editorial reputation at stake, and Goodwin must fear his betrayal as the ogre. When you call them up, they talk a lot, to attempt to preserve that patch of integrity...
...sure, turn back the clock and reduce the costs of malpractice insurance, but it could help prevent malpractice. The law will make it easier for doctors to discipline colleagues against whom charges of malpractice are proved. This will not only help responsible physicians but will also protect the patients against the real problem of bungled medicine...
...cross at all. In their version, Simon of Cyrene carried the cross to Golgotha and-by ghoulish accident-was crucified in Christ's place while Jesus looked down from above and laughed. The Nag Hammadi texts were packed away 16 centuries ago, perhaps to protect them from book-burning Christian opponents. The texts, rediscovered in 1945 or 1946, were probably hidden in a large jar in a mountainside tomb outside Nag Hammadi. Most of them ended up in Cairo's Coptic Museum. Yet because of scholarly rivalries and unsettled political conditions in Egypt, no comprehensive study...
Successful investigative journalism has long depended on the court-recognized right of a reporter to protect his sources in most situations by withholding their names from public disclosure. Otherwise, ordinary citizens, fearful of retaliation by powerful people, might hesitate to speak out about wrongdoing. Two cases now seriously threaten to undercut that First Amendment right. In Fresno, Calif., a judge sentenced two editors and two reporters to serve indefinite terms in jail because they refused to reveal how their newspaper, the Fresno Bee, obtained and later printed sealed grand jury testimony. The testimony centered on a bribery and conspiracy indictment...