Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Howard Hughes and submarines. Eventually, Director Colby moved to suppress the story, pleading national security. His rationale: since Moscow still had not got wind of Jennifer, Glomar Explorer this summer would return in good weather to attempt to raise the rest of the submarine, and secrecy was needed to protect the operation. All this posed a sharp dilemma for editors (see THE PRESS...
...tangle of personalities whose lives never quite mesh with their own. Success is not a shared feature of their struggle; it's too easy to opt for an extreme solution, to let one's inner life give way to silent partnership in other people's fantasies, or, worse, to protect against this kind of dissolution by erecting a rock-like barrier between oneself and the world--a barrier proofed against intrusions from the outside but powerless to subdue inner hurts. It is the various strategies women use to affect a compromise between their inner claims and the pressures of other...
...Today, many Americans are justifiably worried that the very government which is supposed to defend and protect us has decided that we are the enemy," he said...
...terribly disappointed" at the reluctance of Congress to move promptly to help Cambodia's beleaguered government. All that the Administration wanted, insisted one of Ford's top national security aides, was to help effect "some kind of reconciliation" among Cambodia's contending forces that "would protect the lives of the bulk of the Cambodian population." Frankly and refreshingly, he conceded that the U.S. had "no strategic interests" in Cambodia and seemed to admit that, in any case, the military battle had been lost. But that was not true, he insisted, in South Viet Nam. Indeed, battlefront reports...
...patient. The Michael Reese Medical Center in Chicago may increase its daily rates $12 a bed. In New York, where 23 hospitals were faced last week with a 600% rise in malpractice costs, officials estimate that the increase could add $50 to a patient's bill. To protect themselves against malpractice suits, many physicians and hospital administrators are now demanding additional X rays and laboratory tests to document the need for treatment in case the patient sues, that too is adding to hospital costs and bills. Staff doctors are also becoming more reluctant to perform especially risky operations...