Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admittedly, these restrictions may slow committee action, and, in rare cases, subject investigators to longwinded protests. Put into effect, however, they will not only protect the witness, but also transform reckless inquisition into constructive investigation...
...Slicing My Back." The concessions-which drew the most attention in the commission's formal report-included: 1) tampering only slightly with "peril points" and the "escape clause," which keep tariffs high enough to protect any U.S. industry from injury; 2) proposing strong "countervailing" duties for retaliating against nations that control their exports of raw materials to the U.S.; 3) specifically limiting the President's leeway in trade-agreement negotiations. Most important, the commission stopped short of proposing eventual elimination of tariffs, confined itself to urging moderate reductions over the next three years...
...Maldivian Trade Office in Colombo. On Dec. 31, it said. Amin Didi and some followers escaped from Doonidu and crossed over to the main island of Male. "The news spread rapidly among the populace, who demonstrated strongly against Amin Didi . . . The government had to take action to protect Amin Didi from the populace . . . Several government officials sustained slight injuries, as did also Amin Didi . . . Prompt medical attention was given . . . The shock of this incident undoubtedly affected the already poor health of Amin Didi . . He died...
...master gland that secretes many of the body's most important hormones, the pituitary is hidden in a pocket of bone beneath the brain and behind the eyes, as though nature had done her best to protect it from injury - or from the surgeon. Several ways of getting at it have been devised, but none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora...
...volunteer the fact that five of his former colleagues at M.I.T. were Communists was Professor Furry's only mistake at the McCarthy hearing. Although attempting to protect their identities, he may have given enough information about their whereabouts to enable McCarthy to pillory them...