Word: protecting
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AMERICANS have traditionally been willing to do anything to protect the environment--anything, that is, that does not involve the slightest inconvenience to themselves. Even after Earth Week is over, it is important to remember that the daily choices we make as consumers and citizens can help or hinder efforts to bequeath a habitable planet to our children...
...himself wrote in Beyond the Ivory Tower, "when universities address the government to protect the interests of higher education, their officials are the natural representatives to carry out the task. No one else can be counted on to have the knowledge and the motivation to inform public officials how their actions will affect the welfare of academic institutions...
From the first days of perestroika, I was in favor of introducing presidential rule, but at that time, I found myself in the minority. We have come to realize now that the presidency is a necessary and useful institution. Its main task is to protect democracy...
...shredding a presidential finding and erasing 5,000 electronic messages (backup copies were discovered). But for the first time in the scandal, jurors were willing to sustain charges of a conspiracy to obstruct Congress and cover up the Iran-contra folly. "Admiral Poindexter did it because he wanted to protect the political viability of Ronald Reagan. And I consider that to be a selfish motive," Webb said after the verdict. No jury, of course, has been required to address the underlying constitutional question: To what extent can Congress limit a President in carrying out foreign policy...
...special referendum yesterday, almost 75 percent of some 1000 law students polled approved a resolution imploring "the Supreme Court to protect and uphold the hard-won civil rights gained through years of sacrifice and struggle." The resolution also asked Congress and President Bush "to restore the protection of these rights...