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...opponent's umbrella. Furthermore, deployment and even certain types of tests would violate the main arms-control treaty that is now in force: the SALT I antiballistic-missile agreement of 1972. America's European allies understandably fear that the U.S. might take refuge behind its defensive nuclear shield and no longer provide a credible deterrent against Soviet nuclear attack or blackmail...
Harvard's arguments of confidentiality cannot "shield an employer from sitting around in a meeting and saying "We don't want women' or 'We don't want Blacks" 'Rodgers adds. "We think the tenure system should be open to scrutiny by the courts...
...fact the record is mixed. The court has generally protected the press's right to print the news, while refusing to give reporters special protection for news gathering. Thus it has struck down prior restraints on publication but refused to give reporters a First Amendment right to shield sources...
...narrow topics, resembling less his own work than that of his New Yorker colleague John McPhee); he is too constrained, too inward looking, to write in a way that could stir emotions and reach a mass audience. Tom believes that his happiness and security with his new wife will shield him from his father's belittling ways. But in the course of an awkward, misbegotten summer holiday, the captivating old egotist outrides his son on horseback, humiliates him with the neighbors at the dinner table, even beguiles the young wife into joining excursions her husband will...
...long-awaited decision last week that left no one jumping for joy, President Reagan ruled out import quotas to shield the American steel industry from cheaper foreign steel. Instead he opted for a system of voluntary restraints on shipments to the U.S. by producers in Japan, Brazil, South Korea and elsewhere and vowed stiffer enforcement of existing Fair Trade laws. Unionized steelworkers said Reagan did not go far enough toward protecting their jobs. The steel industry, drained by $4.7 billion in losses during the past two years partly because of foreign competition, had lobbied for more protection...