Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five community groups--including the task force and Neighborhoods Eight, Nine and Ten--have joined to form the Committee to Protect the Environment (COPE). They hope to present a united front on the Kennedy Library issue and are hatching plans to make their opposition to the report and to the library heard...
...program for jobs would call for expanded manpower training and a sizable increase in public-service employment. He would make better use of existing manpower resources by creating regional labor exchanges with computerized job data banks. He thinks that monetary policy must protect interest-sensitive parts of the economy from the harmful effects of tight money. To that end, he thinks that the Federal Reserve must be able to direct more credit toward small businesses and low-and moderate-income housing. To do this, he would encourage banks to make high-priority loans in return for the right to hold...
...beginning in 1977; at that time the caucus will select chairmen by secret ballot. The Democrats also voted to open all committee meetings and joint House-Senate conference deliberations to the public, except when committee members decide that they must be closed for any of four specific reasons: to protect national security secrets, foreign trade information, the reputations of individuals and the identity of federal agents or law-enforcement officers...
Vice President Rockefeller has been a hawk on issues like Viet Nam and nuclear testing. Ronald Reagan's record is even more closely associated with imperialistic ventures. All eight men are part of the power structure that the CIA was trying to protect. The committee contains no representatives of the peace movement, no women and no members of ethnic minorities...
Though Kerr-McGee installed safeguards to protect its employees from the hazards of plutonium, Silkwood was critical of the plant's health and safety procedures. Last September, in testimony before the AEC, she complained about unsafe working conditions. In early November, she became living proof of those dangers. On two consecutive days, as Silkwood was leaving work, sensitive plant monitors detected that she was slightly contaminated by radioactivity. She was promptly scrubbed clean. Later, she brought in urine and fecal samples; they proved to be radioactive. On a third day, the monitors clicked when she entered the plant...