Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herzl conceived it, and so it became. But now only the U.S. is left as a firm supporter of Israel among the western imperialist nations American support for Israel has been one way for big business (mainly oil) to protect their investments in the Middle East. And the Arab peoples have increasingly become aware that Israel is sued by the U.S. to maintain its own interests in the Middle East--interests which are in opposition to the legitimate demands of the Arab peoples to control their lands, their resources and their economics...
...despite the kidnaping. Lorenz now may well benefit from a sympathy vote, as well as from a backlash against the governing Social Democrats led by Mayor Klaus Schütz. The mayor was particularly embarrassed by the affair, since Lorenz's police guards-part of a plan to protect leading politicians of all parties-had gone off duty just two hours before the kidnaping...
...this, it is easy to blame the thieves, the fences, the government or even Italy itself. The nation is burdened with the cornucopia of a past that its present cannot protect or even use coherently. But the blame also lies elsewhere. For the past 15 years, every literate person in Europe and the U.S. has been molded by the incessant pressure of propaganda about art as a commodity: by museums which flaunt their directorial machismo by advertising the prices of their million-dollar acquisitions; by witless journalists whose only peg for discussing art is its price; by collectors who grub...
Rogers got into the investment business ten years ago, he explains, partly to protect himself against show-business management sharks and partly to keep out of Hollywood's unemployment office. His first venture was the purchase of an office building in foreclosure, and he still follows the pattern of seeking out money-losing buildings and putting them back in the black. A few of his clients have also been salvage cases. Says Caan: "Wayne stepped in and pulled me up by the bootstraps...
...investigation widened, David Smith, editor of the Independent Florida Alligator, the student paper, demanded open hearings to protect the innocent students: "What of next June's graduates, who will carry through life a business degree whose mere date taints their character with suspicion?" Smith joined a law student and the editor of the Gainesville Sun in filing suit against the university under the state's Sunshine Law, which requires public agencies to hold open meetings when they take official action. Circuit Court Judge Robert Green Jr. then issued a preliminary injunction to stop the student honor court from...