Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lamm's victory would not have been possible without a dramatic change in the state's electorate. Over the past few years, Colorado has been invaded by Easterners and Westerners alike, anxious to escape urban blight and sprawl, and, ironically, more concerned than the natives to protect their state's natural beauties. For them, the environment is the overriding issue. A rather traditional booster who looked forward to Colorado's becoming the "energy capital of the world," Vanderhoof, 52, did not get the voters' message until fairly late in the campaign. Then he joined Lamm...
...their arrival for the General Assembly debate on the Palestinian issue until this week. American and U.N. officials were worried, in fact, that last week's remarkably peaceful demonstration might be counteracted this week by groups bent on violence, and they were already planning elaborate security precautions to protect the P.L.O. representatives...
...planning. He urged the delegates to form a coordinating group and work out details for an international grain reserve that would assure an emergency food supply of 60 million tons. Participating countries would pool information on harvest prospects and stocks, agree on the size of global reserves necessary to protect against famine and share responsibility for storing and distributing the stockpiled grain. In its emphasis on distribution by need rather than commercial demand, Kissinger's proposal was an almost revolutionary departure-certainly for a U.S. diplomat -from the free-market system of trade...
...commission's report is equally trenchant on other Latin American matters. It contends that U.S. insistence on perpetual control of the Panama Canal jeopardizes its interests more than it protects them. It also urges formulation of foreign investment codes that would at once protect underdeveloped countries from exploitation and shield investors from arbitrary expropriation. In matters involving the OAS, the study recommends that "the U.S. should be guided primarily by Latin American initiatives," which is precisely the role that the U.S. will be playing in Quito...
Clearly Harvard must respond to this escalation in crime. The University has an important responsibility to protect its students. The problems of lowering the crime rate are numerous, but Harvard's bureaucratic structure makes a quick and appropriate response even more difficult...