Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Ohio law resembles those enacted by many states at the turn of the century to protect the "weaker" sex from harsh working conditions. Now a growing band of lawyers argue that if the laws are used to bar women who want such work, the result is precisely the kind of discrimination forbidden by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Although the ban on sex discrimination was added to that law as a wry joke by Southern Congressmen opposing civil rights for blacks, complaints involving women now make up nearly one-quarter of those brought to the federal Equal...
...number of Harvard Square merchants appeared at the Council meeting. Al Zavelle, general manager of the Coop, criticized police handling of the situation. He said that the police should have moved in earlier than they did on Saturday in order to protect property in the Square...
Last Saturday night's broken windows have mostly been replaced, but the merchants who were hit, and many who weren't, have decided that the time has come to do something to protect themselves from rioters and crazy youths in the Square, "outright crooks hooking onto a movement," in the words of Jim Jacobs, owner of J. August, the first store hit last Saturday night...
...threat to a land doubtfully able to take it." In the past two years, however, the major oil companies have compiled an excellent record. They have hired Arctic ecologists to help minimize the effects of their presence, even going so far as to develop hardy strains of grass to protect the tundra. Helicopters move whole drilling rigs to avoid ripping up the topsoil. Three companies have built their own highly advanced sewage-disposal units to prevent pollution of the ground water supply. No Alaskan city, in fact, can yet match those units...
...with this oil business," he says. "We got one guy, he don't want oil to work at all-and the state needs that oil. Our economy is pretty bad off without. The other guy, he wants to go all the way and not do anything to protect the natural environment. Most people come to Alaska to get away from the rat race outside. And you know, if we ruin our natural resources, well, there it goes...