Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dollars have been spent for these results, money that could have helped education. If Garrity insists that this insanity is the law, then the law should be changed. That change would be the first step for the American people in regaining control over a government originally founded to protect the people from aggression, but that is now the chief aggressor...
...logic runs something like this: Back in the mid-sixties young American men were being drafted, Why? Because we were at war in Vietnam. Why? To protect our empire. Why? Because the multinationals need an empire. That sounds like imperialism, doesn't it? Sure does. Well, that's not fair for the people in those countries we're feeding off, is it? If you think that's unfair, you should check out the domestic economy. Look, Watergate, unemployment, regressive taxes, poverty-amidst-plenty, you don't think these things are accidents...
Three years after Samphan returned to Cambodia in 1959, Sihanouk appointed him Under Secretary of State for Commerce. Samphan's reason for accepting, according to younger brother Khieu Seng Kim: "From the Cabinet, he felt he could protect his leftist group." Samphan soon found himself courted by wealthy businessmen. The brother recalls: "One day a Sino-Khmer merchant came to our house with a package for him. It was full of money. Later at dinner, he said that 'if you take money from the capitalists, you have to work for them. Then you're a traitor...
...suit is also intended to protect all tenants refusing to pay the rent increase," she said...
...Ford Administration expects Hathaway to protect America's interior adequately, especially as "Project Independence" pressure grows for accelerated mining of coal and oil shale. Unfortunately, objections of environmentalists in Washington will not shake Senate reluctance to reject a Cabinet nomination. Only extensive public pressure can now spare the country the critical environmental damage that Stanley Hathaway would permit as Secretary of the Interior...