Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twist the issue into one of press freedom is ludicrous. TIME Canada has not been forbidden to publish, nor have its contents been in any way censored. Parliament has simply seen fit, as has our own Congress on many occasions, to structure its tax laws to protect home industry and thereby preserve national economic vigor. I say bully for Canadian identity...
Tuition at the, University of Pennsylvania will rise from a current $3790 to $4125 for the 1976-77 academic year to protect a balanced budget for fiscal 1977, a university spokesman said yesterday...
Through Lord Greenhill, its special envoy to Rhodesia, London has told Smith that if he would accept early black majority rule, Britain would 1) provide troops to protect whites and blacks alike during the transition period, and 2) underwrite the main financial cost of resettling Rhodesian Europeans in Britain and other Western countries. Although Smith now concedes that majority rule will have to come considerably sooner than he once envisaged ("not in my lifetime"), he still insists that an African majority government is 10 to 15 years off. That stubbornness prompted British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan to declare in exasperation...
...blast, P.F.F. Inc. turned out to stand for Police-FBI Fencing Incognito, the largest and most successful undercover undertaking in the city's history. Last week when the party was over, 126 people had been arrested, among them an assistant federal prosecutor accused of taking bribes to protect the fences. During the five months, undercover police had paid $67,000 for $2.4 million worth of stolen goods; the take included cars, stereos, TV sets, firearms, 140 typewriters, a bundle of Government checks worth $1.2 million, 1,500 credit cards, a truckload of 300 hijacked air hockey games...
...result has been a constant shifting in the rights that the writ has been used to protect, particularly when federal courts review state convictions. Beginning in 1953 the Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that have allowed lower federal courts to check over every constitutional claim, even if it had been fully litigated in state proceedings. "The writ wasn't supposed to be an appeal, but it has basically become another level of appellate review," says Columbia's Uviller. Prisoners like Lloyd Powell and David Rice began raining petitions on federal courts. The total last year...