Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resistance to nuclear power has become the new crusade for many members of a society that otherwise lacks compelling causes. Nuclear power is an inviting target for those who revolt against bigness-big science and technology, big industry that must build and manage reactors, big government that must safeguard and regulate them. Part of the opposition stems from a desire to return to the supposedly simpler good old days, in which people would do more for themselves and, as one bumper sticker suggests, SPLIT WOOD, NOT ATOMS...
...military presence on the West Bank for a limited time (perhaps up to ten years), if it did not undermine the principle of Arab sovereignty. Last week, moreover, U.S. officials let it be known that Washington might be willing to consider establishing bases and stationing U.S. troops as a safeguard in the area. Begin rejected the idea. Said he: "We do not want any United States troops or United Nations troops, because we ourselves will protect our own people...
...inaugural speech showed moments of eloquence: "The danger for modern man is that he would reduce the earth to a desert, the person to an automaton, brotherly love to planned collectivization. The church, admiringly yet lovingly protesting against such 'achievements,' intends, rather, to safeguard the world that thirsts for a life of love from dangers that would attack...
...Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell-and many observers expected them to reverse the trend set by the liberal Warren Court in the 1950s and '60s. Judicially activist, the Warren Court had frequently extended constitutional guarantees of free speech, equal protection and due process to safeguard individual rights, which usually meant those of the poor, minorities and criminal defendants. With the arrival of the Nixon appointees, the court was less concerned with the rights of the poor, and its decisions became more conservative. Deferential to law-and-order needs, the court was usually thought of as reluctant...
...press. Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas blasted the decision as "incredible and terrible." ABC News Commentator Howard K. Smith called it the "most dangerous ruling the court has made in memory." Washington Star Executive Editor Sidney Epstein was afraid the court had removed an essential press "safeguard," while the Washington Post editorialized that police had been given "the right to rummage" in journalists' files...