Word: safeguarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plunges into a crisis of conscience. Should he leave the repose of his suburban home, his loving wife, his comfortable desk job (he is no longer a tough reporter but a slightly paunchy copy editor) and once again save the world, even with his waning superstrength? Or should he safeguard his comfort, ignoring his boredom and his nagging Cronk conscience...
...plundering pols have outlasted the goo-goos but the finance commission remains, with politicians claiming it is an anachronism and reform-minded observers calling it the city's only autonomous, institutional safeguard. Boston Mayor Kevin H. White abetted by the Boston City Council, is conducting a subtle campaign to vitiate the finance commission by slashing its budget under the guise of an austerity move. The finance commission, consisting of four volunteers and Chairman Andrea Wasserman Garguilo, whose salary is $5000 a year (the same salary the first chairman received in 1909), has a $121,000 budget to oversee...
Vance's reference to "strategic interests" must be viewed warily. Ever since the outbreak of the Cold War, this term has been flashed as a code-word for U.S. opposition to national liberation movements abroad and support for any and all regimes that will safeguard America's sphere of influence and the business interests of U.S. firms. During this time, furthermore, the Pentagon has learned to use words like "strategic interests" in a vague and menacing way to justify the continued presence and build-up of U.S. weapons and military personnel in countries under blatantly corrupt and repressive leadership...
...interest on the endowment. If capital gains are included, the University's endowment produced income equal to 11.8 per cent of its total value last year. But only 5 per cent of the income went to defray Harvard's operating costs. The rest of the interest was reinvested to safeguard Harvard's solvency for centuries to come...
Congress tried-and partially succeeded in-overcoming these handicaps last year by designing legislation that creates jobs with a future (such as teaching, police work, surveying) and requires that they go to workers unemployed 15 weeks or longer. That safeguard, contained in the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, will govern allocation of the additional billions Carter wants in order to increase the number of public service jobs from 310,000 to as many as 700,000 next year. The potential loophole will be enforcement of the 15-week unemployment standard now prevailing...