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...held the editorship of a German psychoanalytic journal during the Nazi regime (his co-editor at one time was a relative of Hermann Göring), Jung has sometimes been accused of Nazi sympathies. Jung's position: as a foreigner of renown, he merely took the job to safeguard what he could of German psychiatry...
...chief protectionist arguments is that tariffs are needed to safeguard vital defense industries. Said Percy: "Our industry points with alarm to the fact that because of foreign competition there are perhaps no more than 2,000 optical workers in the U.S. This may be true; but the industry fails to mention the fact that in the process of learning the optical grinding business, we have radically changed and improved the methods used in Germany and other countries for hundreds of years. As a result, the present unit productivity of our 2,000 workers is probably greater than the productivity...
...been "forced into competitive aggressiveness" by education on a plane with men, and deplored the resulting suppression of feminine gentleness. He felt that higher education produces more mature men and women who are therefore better able to adjust themselves to the problems of marriage. "Self-knowledge is the best safeguard against marriage break-up," Binger said...
...Warning. It is clear that-possibly to safeguard the secret that the U.S. was cracking Japanese codes-Washington did not give Kimmel all the information he needed. But special commissions, Army and Navy boards and congressional committees have gone through all this, and it is a fact that on Nov. 27, 1941 the Navy Department sent Kimmel a formal "war warning." He might have been more alert, might, for instance, have ordered distant air searches when his own intelligence officer told him that he had suddenly lost four Japanese carriers, i.e., could not place them at their usual empire bases...
Another important reason for the high cost of insurance is that each insurance company works out its own mortality table, builds in one safeguard after another to pile up a massive reserve to protect itself against "catastrophes" and meet legal requirements. The mutual companies (i.e., policyholders participate in profits), which sell 70% of U.S. life insurance, pay out surplus earnings as "dividends" to policyholders. But to the policyholder, an insurance "dividend" is actually no earning. Says Northwestern Mutual Vice President Robert E. Dineen: "In our business a dividend is actually the return of an overcharge, and to that extent...