Word: safeguarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to protest the overthrow meeting and avert similar incidents, the SGA approved the resolution passed by the Harvard Student Council Monday. In addition the group recommended that Radcliffe and merged organizations include in their constitutions "provisions designed to safeguard their original purposes and most basic aims...
...coming jet age will also bring a new safety problem: the possibility of failure of plane pressurization at high altitudes. As a safeguard, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled last week that all jetliners flying above 25,000 ft. (and almost all jets will) must carry oxygen masks for all their passengers in case of emergency. Manufacturers have installed "automatic presentation" systems in all jets, so that the pilot can make each passenger's mask pop out of an overhead compartment by pressing a button. All the passenger has to do is hold the rubber cup over his nose...
...Safeguard Jordan. The Assembly should declare "the interest of the U.N. in preserving the peace in Jordan...
...Middle East crisis and its threat to U.S. interests gave urgent importance to a vital but little known-and less used-safeguard for American companies abroad. The safeguard: a program under which the U.S. Government insures overseas investment against the classic risks of expropriation, blocked profits...
Misrepresentation No. 1: that the U.S. economy is oppressive. Hoover eloquently defended "our system of regulated economic freedom . . . its built-in impulses of initiative, energy, ambition and opportunity," with its 70-year-old antitrust laws that safeguard "the fundamentals of fair and open competition...