Word: safeguarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many judges are still loath to stack all the odds against manufacturers, and the doctrine of strict liability is unlikely to be applied universally to all products. Even so, it is easily the most spectacular development in modern tort law-the most potent new weapon aimed at making business safeguard consumers...
...European jongleur and minnesinger have their parallel in the Japanese hanashika, whose tongues have wagged incessantly for some 800 years. Diplomat-Scholar Post Wheeler, who was stationed at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo for six years, determined to safeguard the huge literary and oral tradition of the hanashika, spent 25 years talking with the storytellers and collecting, translating and annotating their tales. His ten-volume work has never been made available to the general public largely because he refused to allow the publication of any edition that did not meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold...
...this may sound like Big Brother, but even civil libertarians are convinced that Gallati's ideas will, in fact, safeguard rights by enabling police to distinguish between veteran crooks and first offenders. "If a quick check shows you have no record," says Gallati, "the desk sergeant will simply give you a summons to appear in ten days." For suspects with criminal records, on the other hand, the system will work like a one-way magic carpet-to the clink...
...pursue and promulgate truth without restrictions or censorship from the University Administration, and his right, in the public sphere, to enjoy the freedoms of association and expression which any citizen possesses. At the core of all issues of academic freedom is the question of tenure; it is the safeguard which allows a professor to to exercise his rights without fear of intimidation from either University or public officials...
...crisis, they ask, "liberal" or "conservative?" Second, they suggest that the reason so-called liberals generally favor the tenderminded policies is that they shrink from the use of power. Hence, the argument goes, their complaints are unrealistic, since the U.S. must maintain its international position if it is to safeguard internal democracy...