Word: protector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However the fights in Michigan and Minnesota come out, a flood of additional Indian-rights claims may soon engulf courts across the country. Congress has set a deadline of April 1 for the Federal Government, which legally is the protector of the Indians, to file suits on their behalf. Pushed by this deadline, many tribal councils that have been attempting to negotiate solutions of their problems with whites may demand that Washington take the cases to court...
...From the Administration's viewpoint, however, the safety of the hostages was more important than giving the P.L.O. a chance to gain a bit of image-building publicity. If Arafat's emissaries were successful, the Palestinians could boast that they had turned the other cheek by helping Israel's protector and ally; if they failed, the world would at least give them credit for trying. As one Israeli diplomat bitterly observed, "It was a no-lose situation...
...Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which set up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to assure the payment of vested pensions. The aim was to prevent situations like the one that arose in 1964 when Studebaker stopped production and workers were left with little or no benefits. Now the pension protector is itself troubled. Twice the Pension Corporation has asked Congress to postpone putting into effect new provisions on multiemployer pension funds for fear that companies or unions would dump their programs and leave the Government to pick up the pieces. The largest net claim for a bankrupt firm to date...
...pious Muslim does not beseech God for favors, either material or spiritual, so much as for guidance and mercy. The word Islam means submission, and the true Muslim submits his life to the divine will of a deity who is the Compassionate, the All Knowing, the Strong, the Protector, the All Powerful-to cite only a few of the traditional 99 "most Beautiful Names...
...study in France. Instead of studying, the 16-year-old Teng got a job in a Paris galosh factory. At the same time, he helped out in the offices of a Chinese Communist periodical called Red Light. Its editor was Chou Enlai, who later became Teng's patron and protector. Teng's zeal in carrying out the menial chores of binding and mimeographing the magazine soon earned him the nickname of "Doctor of Mimeography...