Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aren't have much difficulty sleeping at night. We tell the servants to work during the day and kill them at night. The regime claims 200 deaths, but our reports show casualties upward of 1000: They're so desperate they've had to move Africans into camps to protect the farmers...
...increasing number of women in professions and graduate schools; to the declining national birthrate and the growing numbers of child-care centers; and to the recent decisions approving abortion and prohibiting sex discrimination. But in the face of a recession, Friedan is adamant about the responsibility of women to protect their recent gains...
...developers into an ugly mosaic of plots for leisure homes; laws to halt the despoliation were nonexistent. Once the story appeared, Vermont Governor Deane C. Davis felt that national exposure of the problem gave him the political strength he needed to sponsor the kind of progressive program vital to protect the remaining undeveloped land. The required legislation, first of its kind in the nation, was passed by the lawmakers and, in addition to becoming a model for other states, has since caused one of the biggest developers to go out of business...
...were arrested in the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The indictment attacks nearly all of the previous Watergate defenses put up by the men closest to Nixon. According to the grand jury, these aides tried to use the FBI and CIA to conceal the Watergate crime, not to protect national security. They arranged for payments of large amounts of cash to the arrested burglars, not for legitimate legal expenses but to keep them quiet. They extended offers of leniency and Executive clemency to the arrested men?inducements only a President has the power to fulfill. They destroyed evidence...
...about a meeting that he had held before the break-in with Liddy and Hunt. At that meeting the pair asked Colson for help in getting approval for their political intelligence-gathering plans. Investigators believe that by showing the memo to Dean, Colson made a clever attempt to protect himself and entrap Dean in the conspiracy. If asked later why he did not volunteer information about his meeting with Liddy and Hunt...