Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...historic buildings are to be demolished; Davis says, she would like the architects to protect the building's original facade whenever possible...
...stand for a sound city government, strong and stable, to protect everyone," Pilgrim says...
...labor movement is also a political orphan. Says George Becker, president of the United Steel Workers: "We haven't been able to get the kind of legislation we need to protect working people. We are the Democratic Party, and yet, going back as far as the '70s, we've been unable to get legislation that protects working people's standard of living. We're in a race to the bottom, and that has got to change...
Efforts to protect this natural laboratory began as early as 1934, when some islands were set aside as wildlife sanctuaries. The national park was created in 1959; in 1986 more than 27,000 sq. mi. of ocean in and around the archipelago was designated a Marine Resources Reserve, and four years later the inland waters also became an International Whale Sanctuary. The Galapagos have also been designated a unesco World Heritage Site and a Man and the Biosphere Reserve...
...panel faced a difficult dilemma. For 30 years, doctors have had a choice between two competing polio vaccines. The first, pioneered by Salk, is made from viruses that have been inactivated or "killed." It protects those who are vaccinated but does not stop them from harboring live viruses in their intestines. Should they encounter polio "in the wild," they could become silent carriers and pass the pathogen on to others who have not been inoculated. If polio were to break out--as it did in the U.S. in the '50s, and as it has right now in parts of India...