Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public Service Company has requested police assistance to "help protect our property," a spokesman said yesterday...
...troops in Mozambique, blowing up fuel dumps and radar stations and killing 300. When the Salisbury representatives arrived in London, the Front delegates responded by branding Muzorewa and his associates "criminals" and refusing to shake hands or take tea with them. In return, Muzorewa declared that he would protect his people from "wanton dictators in the making" such as Nkomo and Mugabe. Both delegations insisted they had come to negotiate with the British government, not with each other...
...lived in the apartment that was converted," Walsh contends. "Buying those units is a stabilizing factor for them--there is no better rent control than a mortgage," he added. The "homeless elderly" problem will be solved soon too, Frisoli says. "There are two bills in the state legislature to protect the elderly from condo conversions. That seems to be the sore point, and it will be long gone by election day," he said...
...businesses if we're so willing to accept their help when we are in trouble." Economist Alan Greenspan finds a Government bailout wrong on principle, wrong because it would be granted not to any troubled company but only to a large one, and wrong because it would not protect jobs. Says he: "All it would do would be to freeze people into jobs without a future...
...would be a neglect of the obvious to write about America without mentioning Tocqueville, or Africa without a nod to Conrad. Those authors are not only fixed points to steer by but fetishes that protect a writer from foundering in swamps of detail. Edward Hoagland does not get around to his ritual reference until page 91 of African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan: "Far from learning something new about the black-white torque that is such a misery in America, here I was freer of it. But the other reason why I had come to Africa, instead...