Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...currently taking expert testimony on the venerable and awesome grand jury system, which Nixon's Justice Department had used to intimidate its New Left opponents, and many legal authorities are calling for change. Another alteration in the 800-year evolution of the grand jury, which once served to protect the innocent from over-zealous prosecutors, appears imminent...
...accordionist said yesterday the license will protect performers from the "hassle of policemen forcing them to move and relocate," but others argued that they should not have to pay the license fee because they perform a service to the city...
Basler said that without a firm commitment from Harvard to maintain and protect a three-acre park the residents will refuse to agree to the zoning variance the academy would need to build...
...doughty Norwegians also have become embroiled in a series of diplomatic and territorial disputes with their giant neighbor. The touchiest is the issue of how to establish their areas of control in the Barents Sea and its continental shelf. Not only do the Soviets want to protect their strategic position around Murmansk, they also seek increased fishing rights and access to the potential oil and gas reserves in the 59,870 sq. mi. under dispute. After seven years of negotiations on the question, says a Norwegian diplomat, "we've got absolutely nowhere...
...basis of education or property. Another is to have the several "communities"-whites, blacks, coloreds (people of mixed blood)-choose representative bodies to run their local affairs. They would come together in a sort of federal body, but not on the basis of proportional representation, in order to protect the whites from being outvoted. Who would preside over this body, and how it could equitably handle national matters such as taxation, is not clear. Vorster professes to be skeptical of all such schemes. With characteristic bluntness he says: "Any alternative to the Westminster model is for whites, not for blacks...