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...safeguard the six against prematurity and to give them as much time as possible to develop, doctors managed to delay the delivery for about three weeks...
Although blacks and women may not be getting an even break now when appointments are handed out by Harvard, it looks as though the Federal government is satisfied that the University has a plan to safeguard against future racial and sexual--conscious and unconscious--discrimination...
...Apollo rocket control system jeopardize their chances of a safe splashdown. By week's end the space agency had settled on a different course. For the time being at least, the Skylab team would be allowed to continue its record-breaking 59-day mission. As a safeguard, however, round-the-clock work was ordered at Cape Kennedy to prepare another Apollo craft for a rescue mission...
...American government began to undermine American democracy for the good of the republic. Demonstrators were no longer exercising their Constitutional rights; they were "bums;" it was all right to club them in Chicago, or shoot in Ohio, or herd into jail in Washington. Newspapers were no longer the safeguard of democracy, the cornerstone of a republican state. Or rather, they were now more than ever the safeguard of democracy--which was no longer acceptable to democracy's defenders. Nixon so feared people's knowing the truth about what was happening in Indochina simply because that would lead them to oppose...
Although Nixon pledged to safeguard the environment in all these measures, his lack of emphasis on cutting demand for energy provoked a storm of criticism. So did his apparent unwillingness to fund accelerated federal research programs to develop new energy sources for the future. But Nixon left no doubt about another point: "We must face up to the possibility of occasional energy shortages and some increase in energy prices...