Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THERE is no reason abortion should be a political issue. Other medical procedures that are as simple and safe as abortion are not legislated, except as far as is necessary to protect the patient's health. Decisions to have or not to have any operation are always personal decisions that the state does not regulate; logically, there is no reason why abortion should be treated differently. That some people believe it to be morally wrong does not make the decision to have an abortion any less of a personal issue...
...shuttle bus service began last year in an attempt to protect students from rising crime in Cambridge. The program will cost Harvard about $35,000, the same as last year...
...VINEYARD is, above all, an island, and to the 8000 small-town folk who live there year round, it is The Island. Seven miles of open sea separate the scenic mass of rubble deposited by Ice Age glaciers from the mainland and its ravages--a distance too short to protect against commercialism, but long enough so that many might think the Island is miraculously immune. The Vineyard stands on its own, it seems, and the assured independence most Islanders assert was reflected in a famous headline a few years ago, when poor weather scuttled the regular ferry sailings. "Sound Fogged...
...protect birds is to defend humanity" seems a strange slogan for a whisky distiller. But then, Keizo Saji, 54, chairman and president of Japan's Suntory Ltd., and coiner of the slogan, is a rather strange bird himself. Every year, in addition to contributing one-third of the profits of his privately owned, Osaka-based company (annual sales: $966 million) to an employee benefits program, he contributes an other third to charitable and cultural causes, nota bly the preservation of the 490 species of birds found in Japan...
Paget added such arguments to her own bid for a larger Radcliffe-oriented athletics staff. But Watson, in an interview, dismissed Paget's call for more women's administrators as a last-ditch effort "to protect her students and the programs she founded. It's very hard for poor Miss Paget," Watson said. "Suddenly she's told that the program she nursed for so many years is about to be swallowed...