Word: protect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Proceeds from the campaign will help fund faculty salaries, student financial aid, educational programs like the Core Curriculum, building renovations, and other undergraduate activities. Faculty officials stress that most of the money will support College activities, and that the campaign will not fund many new programs but rather protect existing ones from inflation...
...arguments delineate the problems in giving the fetus these equivalent rights. The first looks at individual rights as the products of a social doctrine. Animals and children are unavoidably present within a society, and to ensure that they remain functioning members of that society they must be protected from exploitation by other societal members. Different political platforms advocate different rights--the right to free medical care, the right to minimal taxation--but all demarcate the interaction of the individual within the group. A person's rights protect him from future harassment, but to actually obtain those rights he must already...
...your suite and find your stereo missing, do you accede the thief's right to take it because your window is easily pried open? The abortion issue thus forces a clarification of the nature of the individual and his social rights. Although we may feel morally constrained to protect the future child, the fetus does not have the right to force us to do so. In the traditional dichotomy of church and state, to restrict abortion is to legislate morality...
...shifted the balance of federal R. and D. spending, which this year will total $30 billion, toward basic research. Carter this month will also present the results of a 20-month Commerce Department study on innovation. Presidential recommendations are expected to include modifications of patent and antitrust laws to protect inventors and encourage joint developments, tax breaks for small innovative businesses, and the creation of cooperative technology centers to get technical information flowing among business, Government and academe...
...Japanese relationship since the end of World War II." In Washington, even Congress's Joint Economic Committee stopped growling. Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, committee chairman, conceded that Japan, under U.S. pressure, had "begun to peel away" the cocoon of import regulations it had spun to protect its domestic industry from foreign competition...