Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Political Rights Defense Fund (PRDF) was formed to protect the Socialist Workers Party and, by establishing a precedent, to do the same for other groups by taking legal action and organizing support work. One of the problems which PRDF encountered was that of getting the federal government to either confirm or deny the existence of COINTELPRO. On January 7, 1973, the Socialist Workers Party filed suit on behalf of its members and those of its youth affiliate, the Young Socialist Alliance, against defendants Nixon, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Mitchell, Dean, Huston, Mardian, and unknown others. The suite demanded $27 million in damages...
...Commission from 1966 to 1969. "As prices go up, the little guy is going to get gouged," says White. "Is that the way to solve the energy crisis-to tell the little guy that he can't drive any more? I believe the Government has an obligation to protect...
Faulkner breathed his last in July 1962. He had found no one to protect him from the ensuing scramble for his literary remains. Family cooperation and the right of access to private papers soon went to English Professor Joseph Blotner, a younger man whom Faulkner had befriended during his last years as a writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. Blotner spent the next twelve years of his life studying Faulkner-with weighty and almost entirely lamentable results...
...long as the U.S. government continues to support the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia and the Thieu regime in South Vietnam, it must continue to offer covert military assistance to protect the billions of dollars in weapons and economic aid already being provided...
Although the Marines' advertising campaign hasn't hit the big time yet--the other services spend much more--there'd be nothing surprising about its doing so. It makes sense for the Marines to use marketing techniques to help protect the system that creates them...