Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have a vastly larger impact on the lives of people in Fargo and elsewhere around the U.S. Indeed, the seven-year plan to balance the budget by 2002 set off a wave of indignant reaction from the President, Democrats in Congress, special-interest groups and lobbyists eager to protect their perpetual claims on the Treasury...
Officers had a chance to get to know the students they protect, and students were able to see officers get down and dirty in sweats and shorts. Some officers brought their families and children to watch the event...
Regarding protests, the Guidelines set out a principle intended to ensure that the members of the Harvard community are allowed to compete in the contest of ideas, as stated on page 16: "The University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join in political associations...publicly demonstrate and picket in an orderly fashion, advocate and publicize by print, sign and voice...
...order to protect the rights of protesters during controversial speeches, the Guidelines narrowly define those categories of actions that should be prohibited because of their disruptive nature, as stated on page 6: "...the definition of disruption is any repeated or continuous action which effectively prevents members of the audience from adequately hearing or seeing the event...
...concerned that its speakers will be annoyed by protesters; yet annoyance and even outrage are basic components of political debate. The conflict of ideas is truly a battle. Perhaps, aware that C-SPAN was taping Specter's speech for later broadcast on television, Dean Carnesale was trying to protect the image of the University, yet instead he announced to the entire nation that Harvard does not tolerate the open dialogue that is essential to the pursuit of knowledge...