Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegiance to Xoda, Shah, Mihan (Persian for God, Shah and Fatherland). Significantly, in this tripartite loyalty oath, King comes before country. Iran's army, navy and increasingly sophisticated air force have two missions. One is to defend a nation ringed by potential enemies. The other is to protect the person, prestige and power of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who once observed, "In this country, if the King is not the commander in chief of the armed forces, anything can happen...
Iranian officials insist that this imposing military machine is needed to protect the Persian Gulf and its international oil fleets, and to fight off any possible Soviet invasion of Iran, until, they hope, reinforcements from the West could arrive. The generals see the current dissent as part of a grand Communist design, linked to Russian moves on the Horn of Africa and in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, a lot of the most sophisticated equipment, including British-made Chieftain tanks and F-4 Phantoms, was deployed around the capital rather than along the Soviet border, obviously to help protect the Shah...
...their business and no one else's ... It has become ... a way of life. We must therefore cope with it as such." Baldrige hardheadedly notes that a single woman living with a man should find a good gynecologist to supply birth control devices and "a good lawyer to protect her rights...
Regulatory excess cuts into spending for research and development and for capital investment in new plant and equipment. Corporate cash is spent on devices to clean the air and protect workers rather than on modern machinery that will produce goods more cheaply and efficiently. While that may appear to be an acceptable tradeoff, it leads to fewer jobs for the unemployed and fewer technical discoveries that will benefit the nation. Yale Economist Paul MacAvoy estimates that the shift of investment from productive projects to programs mandated by regulation has cut the growth of the U.S. gross national product...
...anybody put a price tag on life and health? What is a few billion dollars here or there if thousands more workers will not suffer and die from cotton-dust poisoning or asbestos-caused cancers? Says Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, in support of stern safety and health regulations to protect workers: "A relaxation will increase the real social costs that our traditional economic indexes do not measure...