Word: safeguards
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...long, strong and sharp. They were nailed down by stern rules and broad new definitions. The only kind of "compulsory unionism" the bill permitted was the union shop,* and then only if a majority of the workers wanted it and the employer himself had no objection. The bill would safeguard both workers' and employers' rights to speak out against unions. It would deprive workers of the right to strike over anything but questions of wages, hours, work requirements and work conditions; strikes over any question of union security would be unfair labor practices. These rules drastically revised...
...schools, admitting that they were in serious financial distress, issued an urgent S.O.S. The presidents of 19 universities embracing the nation's top medical schools* solemnly declared: "We warn our fellow citizens that without their prompt and generous aid, our medical schools . . . cannot be expected to safeguard the future health of American citizens and their children...
...personally ambitious officer could easily result in the practical exclusion of free thought in government circles. A program advocating the investigation of every employee's soul as well as his affiliations transcends the obvious limits of national security by its susceptibility to vicious abuse and weakens an important safeguard to democratic rights...
...toward winning World War II. This is an investment in world freedom and world peace. The assistance that I am recommending for Greece and Turkey amounts to little more than one tenth of 1% of this investment. It is only common sense that we should safeguard this investment. . . . If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world-and we shall surely endanger the welfare of this nation...
...Safeguard. In Detroit, Corporal Fred Martin faced the fact that there are "too many good-looking women" around for him to resist, asked for and got, as a rider to his divorce decree, a court order restraining him from marriage for two years...