Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems incredibly distant when the block leader met immigrants at the dock and served as their only real protector and mediator in an alien land, or when immigrants huddled together in specific neighborhoods where they found the old customs, the old language, and relatives or friends to get them jobs. Today the U.S. receives fewer than 300,000 immigrants a year (even so, the rate is higher than that of any other nation in the world), and they still tend to seek out members of their own nationality. But for the most part, they find these in a state...
Above all, as one analyst puts it, "fear is disappearing." Save for the Negroes and the Puerto Ricans, most minorities no longer feel beleaguered. And therefore their need to cling together and seek out a protector who will tell them what to do is diminishing. Says Illinois State Representative Abner Mikva: "The Polish community in Chicago, for instance, has progressed to the point where there are no longer specifically Polish interests to be protected or promoted. If middle-class Poles are unhappy about the Democrats, it is because of civil rights or welfarism as threats to their economic wellbeing." They...
...gone on to achieve one of the highest standards of living in Asia. Until recently, Malaysians could look forward to continued progress. Now a cloud has fallen over their future. The reason is the sudden reduction in Britain's role as Malaysia's longtime financial angel and protector. With the end of the external threat from nearby Indonesia, Britain is withdrawing its 10,000-man military force, and has put Malaysia on notice that some $200 million in economic and military aid will not be forthcoming...
...Mekong: His Majesty the Supreme Divine Lord, Great Strength of the Land, Incomparable Might, Greatest in the Realm, Lord Rama, Holder of the Kingdom, Chief of the Sovereign People, Sovereign of Siam, Supreme Protector and Monarch...
...them are its clients-by accepting part of their liability for claims arising from natural catastrophe or human accident. On the broad marble staircase of the company's châteauesque lakeside headquarters stands a baroque statue of St. Florian, who is regarded as a protector against natural disasters. Says Matthew Klaas, 63, one of Swiss Re's two general managers: "Last year St. Florian let us down...