Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should not be convicted when the ex-President himself cannot even be brought to trial. "The President gave Nixon a complete 'walk,'" said one defense attorney. "The other defendants should get the same thing. How can they be tried when all they really did was try to protect Nixon?" In ordinary legal proceedings, the leading member of a criminal group is most actively prosecuted and gets the stiffest sentence if convicted. Now that the highest-ranking person in the Watergate affair would go free, it seemed doubtful to many lawyers that any jury would send his subordinates...
Amnesty for Nixon would weaken America's ability to protect itself from corrupt officials. If he is guilty he should be convicted of his crimes, not only to provide a deterrent example and emphasize that no man is above the law, but also so that historians can never portray him as a martyr hounded out of office by political enemies...
...reason for the dilemma is air pollution. Every day Los Angeles cars belch the better part of 700 tons of noxious chemicals into the atmosphere. To protect the public's health from that heady mix of poisons, the Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 set firm deadlines for air quality to be improved to specific minimum standards. In Los Angeles' case, mass transit would presumably help by enticing commuters out of their cars. But the Southern California Association of Governments, which represents the 126 cities and counties stewing in the bowl of ambient filth known...
When Congress passed the Clean Air Act of 1970, its aims were laudable: to keep the nation's air clean and to protect the public from noxious fumes. The trouble was that the act's provisions, if strictly enforced, could also end construction of new factories, power plants and smelters that might belch those fumes in areas that now have clean air. Did the lawmakers intend such a curb on economic growth in undeveloped regions? The issue went to the federal courts in 1972, and the basic ruling-one that was upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court...
Test Miles. Automakers contend that test data are still insufficient to prove the safety and reliability of air bags. Transportation Department experts disagree. They contend that hundreds of accidents involving air-bag-equipped autos have conclusively shown that bags protect drivers from serious injury even in high-speed crashes. They also claim that tests have banished two early fears about the bags: that they would inflate accidentally when there was no collision, and that they might pop open with such force as to injure children. In millions of test miles driven, that just has not happened. The bags do have...