Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...duty of the U.S. Government to indemnify its citizens fully for the amount of their pain, suffering, financial loss and legal expenses. No government worth its salt can fail to protect its citizens' rights in cases where there are disputes with foreigners...
...regulations would leave local hospitals some latitude in interpreting them. "Gray areas would include drugs tried on children when the drugs may have side effects that could endanger the child," Curran said. "You may have to work with one child to protect other children. There may be some risk, but not a great risk," he added...
Alaska Lands. A bill to protect some 100 million acres in Alaska against commercial exploitation died when Alaska Democratic Senator Mike Gravel, an all-or-nothing conservationist, walked out on meetings seeking a compromise between a strong House bill and a weaker measure in the Senate. The fight is expected to be joined again in the next Congress. But Congress did approve a $1.2 billion parks bill-dubbed "parksbarrel" by opponents-authorizing more than 128 projects from New Jersey to California...
...looking into at least 29 cases involving journalists who have been subpoenaed in the past 18 months, notes that new cases are coming in at the rate of 100 to 125 a year. In many instances, the subpoenas are being issued despite state "shield" laws that are supposed to protect reporters from such depredations. "There are so many confidentiality cases pending now that we just can't keep track of them all," says Jack Landau, the committee's director. Adds Don H. Pace, an Ohio lawyer with a number of newspaper clients: "It's as if somebody...
...year's most widely denounced Supreme Court rulings-Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily-which authorized some police searches of newsrooms, has apparently not touched off the feared wave of such raids. In addition, a Gallup poll this month indicates that Americans support a reporter's right to protect confidential sources by a margin of 3 to 1, more than in similar surveys in 1972 and 1973. Still, more and more lawyers are using subpoenas of reporters as gambits in criminal trials. "They may even think they have to," says Floyd Abrams, the Times attorney representing Farber...