Word: protecting
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...protect the label's image, Gucci cut off the majority of sales to department stores, and now limits distribution of most Gucci products to the company's 143 stores (although watches, perfumes and sunglasses are still sold in department stores and other retail outlets). To restore old-fashioned quality, hand-stitched leather products are being emphasized. And across the board, prices have been raised an average of 20% -- a fact that seems not to daunt a new generation of Gucci loyalists...
...Congress approved the moral equivalent of a war declaration with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized Lyndon Johnson to use whatever force was necessary to protect U.S. troops in Vietnam. Frustrated by the bootless escalation of that conflict, Congress nine years later overrode Richard Nixon's veto of legislation requiring a President to withdraw troops from hostile areas after 60 days unless Congress approves the deployment. Several Presidents have declared that War Powers Resolution unconstitutional, although none asked the courts for a ruling...
...proceeding, as many of the local people claim, just a show for the international media? No, argues Brazilian Environment Secretary Jose Lutzenberger, who sees the trial as a clear demonstration that his country will protect the rain forest, along with the rubber tappers (seringueiros) and Indians who depend upon the trees for their livelihood. "Chico Mendes did not die in vain," he says. "We must and will put a stop to ecological crimes...
Even granting that sanctions were hurting Iraq, however, could they be counted on to persuade Saddam to withdraw? Baker cautioned the Senate committee that the Iraqi leader could protect chosen segments of his nation for some time. "You can bet the Iraqi people will feel the pain first and most deeply," he said. "Not the Iraqi military and not the government." The question is whether that is any reason not to let sanctions work a while longer -- long enough at least to find out whether the pain will eventually touch Saddam...
...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...