Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like it evidently exerted in getting the United States to offer the tacit support to the Chilean government's opponents that helped make September's coup possible. Geneen may be an accessory before the fact to the political killings Chilean generals have carried on since then, in part to protect ITT's profits...
Wacker said the new pharmacy will serve a double purpose. "It will protect members of the Harvard community from high prices on prescription drugs in the Square, and will provide Health Service physicians a trained pharmacist on the premises for consultation," he said...
...trouble. Under it, all refineries are supposed to get enough crude to operate at 76% of capacity. Companies that have more must sell the "excess" at controlled prices to competitors who are short. The intent of the program was to equalize the amount of fuel available to refineries, protect smaller companies with no crude resources of their own and ensure steady production around the country. When the program took effect on Feb. 1, many small-and medium-sized refiners with inadequate crude supplies stopped trying to buy oil abroad at auction prices ranging up to $20 per bbl., secure-they...
...Marijuana acts, at least in part, by temporarily depressing the nervous system-apparently without serious effect. But a team of researchers from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons reports in Science that the drug can also depress the immune system, which helps protect the body against disease organisms. The team bases its report on a study of 51 young men and women who used marijuana regularly. Taking T-lymphocytes, or immunologically active white blood cells, from the pot smokers and from 81 healthy, nonsmoking volunteers, the doctors mixed the cells in test tubes with substances known...
...gold is being purchased avidly by just about anyone with assets to protect: corporations, banks, Arab oil sheiks, offshore mutual funds, Germans who still remember the wallpaperization of their currency in the Weimar years, and French farmers...