Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council also passed two ordinances introduced by Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 designed to reduce the costs of waste disposal and protect the city's underground water supply...
...reason pro-choice activists call themselves "pro-choice" and not "pro-abortion" is to highlight the fact that they are fighting to protect women in all areas of reproductive decision-making. The pro-choice stance tries to protect women not only from unwanted pregnancy, but also from unwanted abortion and unwanted sterilization...
...aptly named Johnson Controls, Inc. does not pretend to try to protect their full-grown employees, male or female, from hazardous materials. Instead, women workers are assumed to be unable to make smart choices about their reproductive futures, and men, whose own reproductive systems remain at risk to lead exposure, are left alone. Non-existent, spiritual fetuses are the justification for a company's right to: a) deprive potential mothers of high-paying work and b) deprive potential mothers of potential motherhood. An ostensibly "pro-life" policy becomes a policy of sex discrimination and forced sterilization...
When LeeMah DataCom Security wanted to demonstrate the impregnability of its computer safeguard, the company decided to lay down a dare. The California firm, which provides equipment to protect mainframes against interlopers, challenged U.S. computer hackers to crack its code during a weeklong contest. In messages sent to electronic bulletin boards frequently used by hackers, LeeMah promised that any successful code breaker would win a trip for two to St. Moritz or Tahiti. More than 7,000 phone calls came into LeeMah from dozens of hackers trying to beat the system, but none were able to retrieve the hidden message...
...Secret Service imported a two-inch-thick, 75-foot-long sheet of bulletproof glass to place in front of the National Museum for today's inauguration of Democracy Plaza in order to protect Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco and the others. Barco's life has been threatened by drug barons in his country...