Word: guarded
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...credits and outright gifts and $1.4 billion in technical assistance from the European Community. So far, the Soviet Union has received more than 2,500 tons of goods, mostly food, which are being distributed to children's homes, pensioners, invalids and low-income families; all aid is under close guard to prevent pilfering...
...political, and so steer by a functional homing instinct. Human beings invented national boundaries and the miseries of exile; they have messier, more tragic forms of navigation that often get them lost. The earth is home, and all its refugees, its homeless, sometimes seem a sort of advance guard of apocalypse. They represent a principle of disintegration -- the fate of homelessness generalized to a planetary scale...
Within hours, Harvard Yard is crowded with peace protesters. Within a few days, students storm University Hall and shut down the College. Police and National Guard units finally restore order, at least until the first draft notices appear at doorsteps...
President Carlos Saul Menem was still awake in the presidential palace at 3 a.m., following a late dinner with friends, when aides informed him that rebel soldiers had stormed army headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires, just a cannon shot away. The insurgents had also seized the nearby coast-guard building and three other installations. For Menem the timing could hardly have been worse. He knew that if he did not act fast, George Bush, who was in the midst of a South American goodwill tour, was likely to cancel his visit to Argentina -- to the deep embarrassment of Menem...
...waste of the current system is enormous. Paying a guard for an eight-hour shift at the standard rate of $7.75 per hour (many earn more) costs $62, not even including benefits and payroll taxes. That means that Harvard shells something like $180,000 per academic year just to protect the six libraries I looted...