Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said. however, that he would be "very distressed if marijuana were legalized." Drugs reduce an individual's feeling of responsibility which directs him toward goals, he said, and "society has the right to protect itself from the lack of productivity of its members...
...circle in that same torture chamber," recalled Vlassis. "They had moved the bench to one side a little, and I was in the middle of a circle made up of ten people. Each one of them held something-a stick, a metal piece, a rope. So in order to protect myself against their beatings, I had to run. When I went away from one person who had hit me, I approached another person, who then hit me. I think the purpose of this was to make me run so that the circulation should come back to my feet...
Politicians at every level of government recognize that consumerism has become a vote-catching issue. There has been a surge of activity to protect the consumer from fraud in the marketplace, and sometimes from his own bad judgment. Under a new law in Massachusetts, people who are fast-talked by door-to-door salesmen into signing contracts for unwanted goods can now cancel the deal within ten days. California's Department of Professional and Vocational Standards has instituted a television-repair inspection system that has trimmed $15 million a year from fraudulent fix-it bills. The department tests the honesty...
...According to a Harvard professor. "very little attention has been given to the possibility that marijuana might protect some people from psychosis...
...presence of the Chinese highwaymen, along with two infantry battalions equipped with antiaircraft guns who came along to protect the work crews, has alarmed Laotian Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, who has always treated his northern neighbor cautiously. Fearful of a violent reaction from Peking should he protest, the prince at first ignored the road builders, rationalizing that a fuzzy 1962 aid agreement with Peking may have authorized a route as far as Muong Sai after all. But the new spur into the Beng Valley (see map), he told TIME, was "another affair." When the government asked the Chinese to explain...