Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Totalitarian countries can use naked power; an open society has to depend on its wits." On top of the normal tensions of national rivalry, there is now the added danger of international terrorism. The U.S. has escaped serious incidents so far, but it needs intelligence to help protect its allies from this latest scourge of political fanaticism...
...Three months after he arrived in Athens in 1976, Ambassador Udaltsov was accused of funneling $25 million to the Greek Communist Party; unfazed, he called a press conference to declare: "I was not upset by those reports. The KGB is a highly respected organization set up by Lenin to protect the socialist revolution and the Soviet state...
Perpich's hair has grayed noticeably in the year since he became Governor, and he blames the power dispute. Says he: "This is the hard one." To enforce the law as interpreted by the courts, he has sent some 150 maroon-jacketed highway patrolmen into Pope County to protect work crews. More than 40 farmers have been arrested, for interfering with construction. Perpich has proposed the creation of a "science court" that would have-no legal status but would assess the line's potential dangers, if any, to the health of the farmers, their crops and their livestock...
...less than 40% because every one of the 98 countries has a long list of industries and products that it wants exempted from the new foreign competition that tariff cuts would bring. The U.S. list includes color television sets, chemicals, shoes and special steels. The Europeans want to protect agriculture, cars, electronics and. like the U.S., shoes and steel. Also, the Europeans demand that the U.S. cut its comparatively high tariffs of 25% to as much as 108% on certain goods-orange juice, men's wool suits and watch bracelets among them...
...University's action shows a side of academic institutions that is all too rarely seen, namely, a willingness to protect a courageous individual. Harvard should now take the next logical step--to divest its holdings in American companies whose South African investments support the apartheid system...