Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reform bill, designated S. 1400 in 1973. However, the original bill died in committee, and with good reason; the proposal contained some of the Nixon administration's most paranoid reflections. It recommended the death penalty for a shockingly wide range of crimes and a "National Security" act that would protect at executive discretion almost anything within government purview. Under that legislation, for example, Daniel Ellsberg would have been jailed. After S. 1400 died, Senators John McLellan (D-Ark.) and Roman Hruska (R-Neb.), the national champion of mediocrity, co-sponsored a less strident version...
...House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, said yesterday the pre-emption clause contains two conditions for the state or local government to establish its own guidelines: the local guidelines must be the same or more stringent than the federal ones, and the change must be necessary to protect local health or environmental conditions...
...maybe she'll fall asleep. "Handguns shouldn't be controlled, you know, I mean what if a ghost comes into your house? If you don't have a gun by your bed, what can you do to chase the ghost away? I have my rights, and I want to protect myself from ghosts. . ." On and on she rambled, getting louder and louder until she was literally screeching, trying to drown out the noise of the tracks. I was trapped until she suddenly bolted near New Haven, looking, I suppose, for the next blissful dose of thorazine...
...Howard Baker were to endorse the treaties after well-publicized visits to Panama; then they were to bring the treaties to the Senate floor, where individual Senators would be allowed to appease critics at home by amending the pact with an "understanding" clarifying the U.S. right to intervene to protect the canal's neutrality after 2000. But as of last week the pro-treaty forces remained short of the 67 votes (two-thirds of the Senate) needed to pass the pact...
Still, the business community was taking no chances. At the headquarters of a major multinational company, an iron gate was installed to protect the offices against attacks by street mobs. The top management of a French heavy-machinery company in the Paris suburbs changed the locks on their factory doors to prevent a lockout by workers. Commercial transactions were being carried out mainly on a day-to-day basis, with immediate payment demanded. In the vast government ministries, the bureaucracy meandered, as decisions were postponed until after the elections...