Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressional confusion allows the President to take the lead, and Ford is willing to do so. Last week he vetoed a bill to regulate the strip mining of coal, arguing that the restrictions arrived at to protect the environment would be too costly for consumers and reduce coal production. Though the bill had passed the House May 7 by a 293-to-115 margin, the Democratic leaders put off until June 10 attempts to override it. As of last week they clearly did not have the two-thirds majority needed to break the veto. "We may back into an energy...
LEGAL SERVICES. Old people in need of legal services to protect their rights to housing, Social Security or medical benefits, safeguard their assets and guard against exploitation by the unscrupulous, can usually obtain them through local legal-aid societies, which provide free or low-cost legal guidance. More specialized help is available from the National Council of Senior Citizens, which has its headquarters in Washington, and local Gray Panthers' organizations...
...Phyllis." We all have to struggle against the labels with which family, teachers, and institutions occasionally brand use "the smart one," "the pretty one." "the down-to-earth-one," "the artistic one," "the grind," "the goof," ect. I think it is our duty as fellow students to try and protect each other from these epithets. Some labels are more attractive than others (I would rather be "Good Time Charley" than "Phi Beta Phyllis"), but they are all usually more limiting than revealing, and may be destructive. --Maggie Hivnor...
...waxy substance separated from it-spermaceti -are resistant to high temperatures and pressures, and have been used in such varied processes as coating paper and fabrics, manufacturing cosmetics, soaps and candles, cold-rolling steel and lubricating automatic car transmissions, watches and other precision machinery. In an effort to protect the world's dwindling population of sperm whales, in late 1970 the U.S. banned the importation of their oil. Even though other nations, notably the U.S.S.R. and Japan, continued to hunt the whales, the U.S. stockpile of the oil began to dwindle alarmingly, and manufacturers argued that there...
...center have received a few dozen or so phone calls in the last week from Vietnamese refugees who want to know how they can get back to Vietnam. Some thought conditions in Vietnam would be worse than they apparently are, others were fleeing the war in order to protect their families. The majority of the refugees are women and children who wanted to escape the war, not communism. And many of the men were officers in the South Vietnamese army or businessmen who had some money and wanted to get out to keep...