Word: shields
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...month after President Obama said he would scrap his predecessor's plans to place a U.S. missile-defense shield in Poland, Vice President Joe Biden announced that the East European ally would, in fact, host interceptors in a revamped version of the system. Obama's decision to remove Poland from the antiballistic-missile program had irked Warsaw, which viewed the deal as providing integral protection against potential long-range attacks...
Eliot’s portrait will likely return to its usual post on the wall of the Faculty Room by the next Faculty meeting in November, when “President Eliot will be imbued with a non-reflective glazing that will shield him from further harm,” Smith said...
Highlight Reel: 1.The United States is getting freer: "The process of adopting a Shield Law protecting the confidentiality of journalists' sources at the federal level is far from over in the United States (20th) but the judicial authorities are no longer jailing journalists and violating civil liberties in the name of national security as they were in the Bush era. So the U.S. is back in the press freedom top 20, as is appropriate for a country where the press has traditionally played its role as independent watchdog well." (See the top 10 newscaster bloopers...
Professor T. Barton Carter, chairman of Boston University's Department of Mass Communication, says ultimately the issue will come down to the judge's discretion. While Carter says he feels the student work qualifies under the spirit of the law, the judge may not decide to apply the Illinois shield law at all. General legal protections already exist to quash subpoenas if they're beyond the proper scope of an investigation, something Carter believes may apply in this case. "This looks like one of the great fishing expeditions of all time," Carter tells TIME...
...Waxman had pushed to shield biologics for no more than five years - the same amount of time that traditional pharmaceuticals get under the Hatch-Waxman law. President Obama proposed seven years as a compromise...