Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been interpreted as possible rehearsals for a U.S. invasion of Middle East oilfields in the event of petroleum "strangulation." Sixth Fleet commanders deny that the exercises are anything more than routine. They point out that the amphibious force, after all, is only large enough to "go ashore to protect an embassy" in case of trouble...
...ants come back every year now," says Halwin Jones, an official in Florida's agriculture department. "It used to be three, four or five years before they'd return." In Lowndes County, Ga., Agent George Kessler reports that farmers this year have begun to abandon pastures to protect their animals from the ants and that "children are having to play inside at some kindergartens to avoid being stung." If the Agriculture Department could concentrate its sprayings, they imply, the ants would not only be controlled but eradicated...
...know W.W. is to learn that he is not half as clever as he looks-or thinks he is. As the Dancekings' faith in his ability to conduct them to the top of the charts wavers, the group's desire to protect him from the worst consequences of his scheming grows in a rather touching way, though Director Avildsen sensibly makes no big thing...
While the new legislation will help to protect doctors and ease the financial problems facing their insurers, none of the measures proposed-or enacted into law-thus far would do very much for the wronged patient. That omission is unfortunate. Though malpractice suits are sometimes frivolous and awards undeserved or unrealistically high, many claims are brought by patients grievously injured by the mistakes of their physicians...
...created socially based inequities in the distribution of children to schools of marked differences in quality. This is aggression, and a contemptible display of racial discrimination. This is an example of Mr. Ferrara's tendency to ignore racial and economic realities in our society while expressing a desire to protect individuals from the aggression of public officials...