Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tons per year for EU boats. In the first two weeks of 1995, EU boats caught over 7,000 tons of turbot. Predictably, the European Union ignored Canada and continued to fish just outside of the 200-mile limit. The EU threatened to send warships to protect its interests. Diplomatic negotations were halted. And meanwhile, turbot go the way of other species: cod populations have been reduced by 99 per cent, pilchard and polar cod by 94 per cent, and haddock by more than 80 per cent since the mid-1970s...
...less this trust exists, the more the quality of life degenerates. Paranoia replaces goodwill, and the time and energy we must expend to protect ourselves from malefactors saps our individual and collective strength. This is true no matter what type of society we discuss...
...McFeeley insisted that "laws are important" and Democrats will be the ones to pass the laws needed to improve and protect gay and lesbian rights...
...there would be no national authority to catch them. Lugar contends much of the sales tax would be offset by price reductions because retailers would no longer have to pay corporate income taxes. The senator said there would be exemptions -- possibly for food, medicine and home purchases -- to protect low-income residents from loosing too much income to sales taxes...
...attorney was the only councillor to vote against the city council's watered-down petition to the state legislature after the abolition of rent control in a state referendum on Election Day. She said the city's petition did not adequately protect tenants in rent-controlled apartments...