Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headline-writers were straining to hear: Quemoy and Matsu. But while he left open the specific question of U.S. defense of these little Nationalist-held islands off Red China's coast, Dulles outlined a general principle of U.S. Asian policy of tremendous implication. The U.S. fully intends to protect the free nations of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific against Communist attack, and is well aware that it may have...
...provisions already written into existing long-term contracts with the pipelines. The overall effect has been to invalidate virtually every contract throughout the industry-long-term contracts (20 years or more) between producers and pipelines written at the behest of the FPC to bring about stability. To protect themselves against increased costs, producers wrote in "escalator" clauses permitting gas price increases. Now all such adjustments are illegal...
DeGuglielmo said the clean-up campaign was city-wide and not aimed at Harvard Square taverns in particular. "I'm trying to protect everyone," he said, "including our transient guests at Harvard, Radcliffe, and M.I.T...
DeSapio, wearing dark glasses to protect his very poor eyes, warned that" until a code of political ethics with meaning and teeth is enacted and enforced, opportunists, will continue to ex-pound falsehoods." He urged leading man to take an active part in politics, but these men refuse to, he said, because they have been "maligned and outraged; insultingly and degradingly characterized as 'politicians...
French justice, based on the Napoleonic Code, has long been viewed with cynicism by its friends and alarm by disciples of Anglo-Saxon procedures. "The Code exists to protect society from the criminal, not to protect the criminal from judicial error," explains one French expert. "We run our courts to convict the guilty, not to acquit the innocent." Last week the case of a Nantes stevedore, only the most recent of a series of setbacks of justice, touched off a storm of indignation...