Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect as well as they can their oasis of stability, the Saudi leaders have used the power of petrodollars to help shore up moderate regimes around them. They yearn for consensus rather than polarization and try to soften up radical Arab regimes rather than fight them. They annoyed the U.S. and Egypt by going along with a condemnation of the Camp David agreements at the Baghdad summit meeting of Arab states; but they did so in return for an easing of radical Arab retaliation against Egypt. The West was disappointed at the Saudi performance at last month's OPEC...
...Shah, which many now predict, would change the equations of power, from Egypt and Ethiopia all the way east to Pakistan. The helplessness of the U.S. to shape events in Iran is beginning to sap Saudi Arabia's confidence in the ability of the U.S. to protect the region from Soviet penetration, a hazard that some American officials fear is every bit as threatening as the Soviet thrust into Europe of the late 1940s and early 1950s. As a result, the Administration intends to deliver a stern warning to the Soviets through private channels not to exploit the situation...
...died there. Who the assailants were may never be known, but the Cambodians immediately offered their own theory. Said the Westerners' official guide in Phnom-Penh, Thiounn Prasith: "Our enemies know of the importance of your visit and wanted to show the world that Cambodia could not protect her friends...
Intentional delay by lawyers is a different matter. Judges are beginning to use their power to penalize foot-dragging on legitimate discovery demands, and to protect parties from unreasonable ones. In a recent case, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Co. stalled the State of Ohio in its attempts to get at some records in Switzerland. A federal judge ordered the company to pay Ohio $60,000 in legal costs. Another judge, citing "flagrant bad faith," simply threw out the antitrust claim of New York City's Metropolitan Hockey Club Inc. (later Golden Blades) after it failed to respond...
...research associate of the nonprofit Conference Board, "the coming year opens a three-year bargaining cycle dominated by fear-on the part of all employees, union and nonunion alike-that inflation will overwhelm wage increases." Thus union members think that they ought to get the biggest raises possible to protect themselves against an inexorable rise in prices. The Administration has sought to counter that fear by ballyhooing a proposal to Congress to grant income-tax rebates to workers whose wages rise slower than prices do. But Congressmen worry that such "real wage insurance" would be inordinately expensive, and union leaders...