Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rightly or wrongly, Presidents on many occasions have irrevocably committed the country to foreign ventures without congressional consent. In the first two decades of the century, for example, American troops were sent repeatedly to preserve order or protect U.S. interests in Caribbean countries. In 1940 Franklin Roosevelt traded 50 World War I destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. As Winston Churchill observed, the action "would, according to all the standards of history, have justified the German government in declaring war." President Truman later dispatched troops to Korea without congressional approval, John Kennedy had his Bay of Pigs...
...natural consequence of the fact that more people want to live in Cambridge than the number of units available can absorb. New construction to expand the supply of housing is a need for the highest priority, but not simply so that more people can live here. We must protect the ability of long-term residents of Cambridge to stay here. What we must do, as a matter of public responsibility, is to insure that housing is produced that the private market will not produce under any circumstances--housing for the elderly on small, fixed incomes, for large families and families...
...then diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, and most recently, measles. Last week the U.S. Government approved a vaccine that will benefit no child already born, but is expected to save hundreds of thousands of unborn infants from death or dis abling malformations in the womb. It is a vaccine to protect against German measles, folk-named "three-day measles" and technically rubella. The first ship ments were on their way to doctors with in hours of the licensing announcement...
Warren's main objective in rushing adoption of the code was to protect the independence of the U.S. judiciary. Two bills now before Congress would require judges to make financial reports available to the House Judiciary Committee or to the Comptroller General, whose office is controlled by Congress. Until recently, the judges were able to resist such a requirement by noting that neither the executive nor the congressional branch of government required such disclosure from its members. But Congress last year enacted its own code of ethics-however weak-and the judges could no longer complain that they were...
...hopes of opening additional pizza shops because, unlike the heads of bigger businesses, he cannot raise money. Diane has dropped plans to enlarge their kitchen and add another room to the house because "it probably would cost something like $2,000." They do not feel that they can even protect themselves against illness by continuing Blue Cross coverage. "Six years ago, we paid $50 a quarter; now it's $95," says Diane. "We just had to cancel out and quit thinking about what will happen if one of us gets seriously sick...