Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such an attack, McNamara has long argued that it would be too expensive. Moreover, he points out, if the U.S. plans to defend itself by exploding the enemy's nuclear warheads in the sky, the nation will also need a vast and costly network of fallout shelters to protect its citizens. Nevertheless, the Senate last week voted $167.9 mil lion to buy Nike X hardware. McNamara has also been reluctant to build nuclear-powered warships for economy reasons-so the Senate voted $150 million for a nuclear-powered guided-missile frigate...
...since then to alter that unhappy condition. To most impoverished Americans, the law's personification is a landlord brandishing an eviction notice, a creditor repossessing furniture, a social worker cutting off welfare payments. Nonetheless, argues Anti-Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, the law can and should be made to protect the poor. To this end, Shriver, a Yale-educated lawyer, has been zealously promoting a pioneering program to expand legal aid to the needy...
...more than a decade, they have yet to get off the drawing boards-let alone into the air. The big problems are weight and radiation hazard. A reactor big enough to power a 335,000-lb. 707 jet, for example, would require 225,000 Ibs. of radiation shielding to protect passengers-considerably more than the plane could lift. In the event of a crash, the high impact speed of the plane would almost certainly shatter the reactor, exposing anyone in the vicinity to radiation...
...Auburn St.). These problems are not insoluble, and by working together Harvard and MBTA experts should be able to design the extension without permanent damage. Whatever the route choice, Harvard and Radcliffe should remain calm: by accommodating the public interest, the University is in the best position to protect...
...proposal specifies compensation, however, for undersubscribed Houses. A dean would guard the interests of Masters who do not express great concern over the House selection process. The whole also remain secret, "to protect everyone involved...