Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...someone save your allotment of air, although one person, who had to go to the men's room, did take his shoes off and implanted them firmly in the puddle of beer in which he had been standing for the past three innings. His hope was to reserve and protect his precious space; needless to say, the space was taken and the shoes were stolen...
...only conclude that the true objective of the CIA was to protect the interests of multinational companies," she said, adding that the U.S. government is the only one that gives military and financial support to the junta...
...closed meeting in October 1971, the then Secretary of State, William Rogers, told executives of such American corporations as ITT, Ford, Anaconda, Ralston-Purina, the First National City Bank and the Bank of America: "The Nixon Administration is a business administration. Its mission is to protect American business." That is clearly also the mission of the Ford Administration. Mr. Ford stated publicly in September 1974 his approval of the activities of the CIA in Chile...
...authors contend, companies slide huge amounts of capital across national boundaries to escape high tax rates and pile up profits. By shifting production from one market to another, global firms leave unemployed workers behind. Powerful producers like auto, appliance and computer manufacturers have banded together in restrictive combinations to protect their revenues, the authors claim, and deprive consumers of a truly competitive market system...
...headquarters in Switzerland. Something like this could happen every time we investigate one of them. Adams didn't turn the information over to a rival pharmaceutical firm. He gave it to the EEC, which was investigating a possible violation of Common Market law. If the Swiss want to protect that kind of information, what will happen when we start looking into things like tax havens...