Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrested him on a freeway ramp for suspicion of robbery and burglary. He had in his possession a tear-gas bomb, a .22-cal. rifle, an 8-in. knife, gunpowder, blasting caps, wiring and a security officer's badge. DeFreeze told the police that he needed the weapons to protect himself from "criminals...
...Socialist-Communist platform that call for greater nationalization of industry and for a crash housing program by asserting that he would have to go slow "now that the economy is growing at a rate of 4.5% instead of 6%." He has promised to strengthen the franc and protect savings accounts against inflation-a prime concern of the bourgeois-by increasing the interest rate paid to depositors as the cost of living rises...
Recently, a new group of sycophants joined Kissinger's public entourage. A New York Times story in last Sunday's edition indicated that legislators "admit a desire to 'protect Henry' from the scandals of the Nixon administration." The story quoted Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-N.J.) as saying that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee did not make a strenuous effort to find out about Kissinger's involvement in setting up wiretaps. The committee did not want to embarrass Kissinger, Case explained...
...Secret Service technicians and three trusted aides: Haldeman, Lawrence Higby and Alexander Butterfield. It was Butterfield who startlingly revealed the system in response to a throwaway question from a Senate Watergate-committee staff counsel on July 13. Even then the President must undoubtedly have felt that he could still protect the tapes with his claims of Executive privilege. Indeed, there had been discussions among those privy to the system about dismantling the recorders as early as six months after the Watergate burglary, and again when the cover-up began to unravel. But nothing was done. "He never in the world...
...score of fringe candidates who have a potential nuisance value but no real possibility of whining. The most serious of them is Jean Royer, 53, the independent mayor of Tours, who has become the darling of France's petite bourgeoisie by campaigning against pornography and sponsoring laws to protect the small businessman from the competition of big stores. Because he might be able to attract the support of France's 570,000 small shopkeepers, he could cut deeply into the potential first-ballot strength of both Chaban and Giscard. Nonetheless, there was little doubt that the real race...