Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filibuster, though it has in recent times assumed the cast of evil, is a respectable safeguard against the vagaries of democracy. Instead of allowing its elimination by a small group of Senators, it would seem far wiser to establish the two-thirds-of-those-present rule as the necessary number to limit debate. Such a compromise will permit the passage of needed civil rights measures without sabotaging a truly useful protection of minority rights...
...This was the first clear-cut, realistic choice farmers have ever had on the question of controls versus freedom of decision," crowed Benson. "Farmers are now free to plant as much or as little corn as they wish, with the safeguard of a reasonable support level. They have acted in their own, best long-term interests...
Opposition Leader K. A. Busia objected that without the two-thirds safeguard "the constitution will become a fragile document on which no one can rely, since it can be changed any day or any moment." The opposition saw Nkrumah's proposal as just one more step toward the complete abolition of the regional assemblies in favor of an all-powerful central government. Nkrumah frankly agreed; the regional assemblies, he said, were "a rape on Mother Ghana," and had produced a "leprous baby." Opposition M.P.s cried, "What's the hurry? What's the hurry?" as Nkrumah rammed through...
When the common market idea first came up, the British saw a surer future in their own Commonwealth and held aloof from any such untried continental combine. But to safeguard their European trade stake, they cooked up a plan for a wider, 17-nation Western European "free trade area" which would include the inner six and would also start in business on Jan. 1. Last week, at a showdown meeting of representatives of the 17 free trade area nations in Paris, the French threw up such a solid wall of resistance that the British feared for their chances of keeping...
Kishi thought he knew where some of the blame lay for the crime and violence that has rocked Japan since the end of the war: it lay on the good intentions of U.S. occupation reformers, and their determination to safeguard the Japanese against intimidating cops...