Word: safeguard
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What is more likely is some sort of federal action. Legislation now pending in Congress would safeguard policyholders against insurance company failures by providing federal backup auto insurance, much like the kind that protects bank depositors. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson promises that his Senate Commerce Committee will turn upcoming hearings on that legislation into a "root-and-branch investigation" of auto insurance in general...
...stifling dissent now any more than it did in the past. Rusk's words could have been used by President McKinley during the so-called Philippine Insurrection at the turn of the century, when 70,000 U.S. troops sought to "Christianize" Aguinaldo's guerrillas, and safeguard U.S.-Asian commerce in the process. Home-front critics of that war included Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, and ex-Presidents Harrison and Cleveland. A Negro editor called it "a sinful extravagance to waste our civilizing influence upon the unappreciative Filipinos when it is so badly needed right here in Arkansas...
...committee of students and faculty from Harvard and M.I.T., which has circulated a petition to "restore constitutional government and human rights" and "safeguard the lives of all political prisoners" is concerned that the junta is using Papandreou's fate as a ploy to extract aid from...
Leaders of the protest then pushed a petition under the consulate door. The petition called on the military regime to safeguard the lives of all political prisoners, and to call an immediate election to return constitutional government to the country...
...Iraq Museum as being back in 1925. But the surge of Arab nationalism that made Iraq independent after World War I carried with it pride in a past that goes back 90 centuries, and included such mighty capitals as Babylon, Nineveh and Ur. In 1936 laws were passed to safeguard Iraq's antiquities, which for over a century had been filtering out to the world's great museums. And to insure that relics unearthed in the future would be properly housed and displayed, ambitious plans for a museum were drawn up by German Architect Werner March...