Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...base or responsibility. In general, he sees his role as a modulating one. He is reluctant to press for his own proposals because he feels guilty about using his age and position to influence the students. Instead, he ends up obstructing things. He constantly opts for more delay to "protect" the students from doing anything rash. In the end, nothing gets done...
...safekeeping in the coffers of Middle Eastern sheiks and oil potentates. Latin American businessmen, affluent overseas Chinese, Asian generals-all claimed a piece of the action. The central banks of many smaller nations with precarious national reserve margins, including some Communist Eastern European countries, had undoubtedly joined in to protect themselves. More in sorrow than in greed, European corporations moved into the buying to hedge their foreign-currency holdings. So did some wealthy Americans with numbered Swiss accounts, although it is illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold bullion...
...improvements and prospects of further gains, said Dr. Myron P. Nobler, result from the use of modern radiation at supervoltage levels. This may come from a linear accelerator, a large cobalt-60 source, or a generator that puts out 2,000,000 electron volts. To protect the patient from radiation sickness and to spare normal tissue, healthy parts of his body must be shielded. At Memorial Hospital, said Dr. Nobler, an X ray with a grid background is made of the body area involved. On this X ray the radiologists mark the vital organs, such as lungs, which must...
...problems, the dollar will continue to be the world's most important currency, if only because the U.S. economy has safeguards -bank insurance, market regulations, progressive tax rates-built in to cushion it even in hard times. But only the U.S., by putting its affairs in order, can protect the dollar. One way, which House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills is demanding, is for the Administration to cut back domestic spending more sharply than it wants to, as long as it is faced with large outlays for Viet Nam. Last week Lyndon Johnson agreed to reductions...
...crews in the van. To the men in the field, network managing editors back in New York seem obsessed with "the wire-service syndrome" - they ask for coverage of every bit of action. Says one embittered TV staffer: "Editors are so afraid of missing one story that to protect their flanks they have been asking us to risk getting our tails shot...