Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arms sales, so long as what Senator Stuart Symington calls "the rules of the game" remain unchanged. It may well be that the arms trade is, in fact, necessary to the existence of sovereign states. Who can say that they should not retain the option of military force to protect themselves? Welko Gasich, a vice president of Northrop Aircraft Corp., puts it bluntly: "Until we have a bona fide world police force, it's still Dodge City and everyone wants a rifle over his door." Considering the rate at which arms are being exported, the day of a rifle...
...frigates for Peru, tanks for Pakistan and counterinsurgency aircraft for Zambia and South Africa. James Bond's favorite pistol, the snub-nosed .25-mm. Beretta, is still sold all over the world. La Spezia's Oto Melara company has tested a high-speed missile-launching hydrofoil designed to protect narrow bodies of water. Italian arms appeal to nonaligned nations since Rome attaches no political strings to sales...
...some military experts, Iran has far more arms than it needs to protect its borders, a fact that worries other Gulf nations. In defense of the buildup, Iranian military officials argue that their country has potentially antagonistic neighbors in the Soviet Union and Iraq and that the country has a particular responsibility to defend and keep open the narrow Strait of Hormuz, through which pass tankers carrying more than half of the West's oil supply...
...which requires named fiduciaries to be personally liable for the funding of employee benefit programs--is designed to protect workers' pensions and other benefits in the event of a firm's bankruptcy...
...member of the brigade told the crowd. "We're here to expose the myth that they (the military) protect the people. We're here to tell them where the hell we think they...