Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a public building is dedicated to one faith, it is difficult to argue that the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment has not been violated. While Cambridge politicians and historians vow to protect the plaques for their historical significance, respect for our nation's Constitution demands that they must come down...
...BRIEFLY DOCUMENTED THE EXTENT to which Asahara was poisoned by the insecurity of poverty in his life. Face it: human existence is as fragile as the development of human character. The greatest police force in the world cannot protect us from those who have been "bent" enough to murder. Our only hope is to stop the bending of human lives by one of the most destructive forces on earth: abject poverty. Every day poverty kills innocent children at many times the rate of Hitler's death camps and permanently disables 10 for each one who dies. Children and adults alike...
...intelligence sources and basic security measures, all of which we seem to regard as more expensive than our system can afford. Accordingly we shrug and go on with our lives, accepting the risk. But why continue to spend vast sums on absurd military projects when the same funds could protect us from a real threat? America's military planners are not just wasting money (no small sin) but are also guilty of outright mismanagement and violation of the public trust...
...safest form of sex yet, and now busybodies want to waste time and money abolishing it. Why not turn their efforts to combatting threatening sexual acts such as rape, molestation and child pornography? And so far as the poor, innocent children's being exposed, it is too late to protect them. All they have to do to see pornography is turn on the TV or go to a movie. The old guys in the Senate are scared to death of the computerized nation we are becoming because they have no idea how the computer works. Give Senator Jim Exon...
...request for broad new powers to fight terrorism, promising to pass sweeping new legislation in response to theOklahoma City bombing. "I know I speak for all the Senate when I say that we stand with all the people of Oklahoma, committed to doing all that is needed to protect America from the terrorist threat," Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said in a speech on the Senate floor. Democrats backed him. Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said he and Dole would introduce a bill that combines tougher penalties for terrorist acts in the United States with thepresident's proposals...