Word: safeguards
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...highest level, when we progress from dictatorship or oligarchy to the type of democratic government that we entrust to safeguard our lives and liberty, honesty becomes absolutely essential. The very definition of a democracy is a society in which the government is given a mandate by the people to serve the people...
Harvard has its share of political divisions, but all students, faculty and administrators should be able to come together to protect student loans. Setting an admirable example, University administrators have strongly stated their commitment to safeguard need-blind admissions, come what may. President Neil L. Rudenstine should speak out nationally against the cuts. Still, many other schools do not have Harvard's immense financial resources; they will be forced to leave poor students without the chance to learn and succeed in society...
...except one were soldiers, mainly members of the vanguard paratroopers unit. That may have made the attack seem like a legitimate act of guerrilla warfare to Palestinians. But the act of terror was especially shocking to Israelis: these fallen were the very men and women who were supposed to safeguard the rest of the nation from such assaults...
...secret operation code-named Sapphire. Kazakhstan had previously agreed to relinquish the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the former Soviet Union, but it had also taken charge of several nuclear stockpiles. U.S. officials were concerned that the cash-starved former Soviet republic would be unable to safeguard the dangerous material. The nuclear stockpile will be stored at the Department of Energy's Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee...
This massive display of power is not to safeguard the virtue of Harvard students, however. In a rare interface with reality, University administrators appear to have recognized that undergraduates do consume alcoholic beverages, some of them on a regular basis...