Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conservative Senators and Representatives reintroduced a proposal to protect the American flag from desecration. The measure enjoys broad bipartisan support but also strong opposition from some lawmakers who are concerned about tinkering with the right of free speech...
...apparent arrogance in handling huge amounts of other people's money not only shows a reckless attitude but is also possibly a payback to capitalism for past sins against working-class people. Whatever the motivation, it is vital for banks and financial institutions to find ways to protect themselves against such crusaders. Claus Faye-Thilesen Drammen, Norway COMPANIES, IN THEIR AVARICE, ARE IGNORING age and experience in favor of ego and ambition. And look at the results. Ann G. McDonald Omaha, Nebraska EVERY DOLLAR THAT LEESON LOST WAS gained by someone else. Somewhere there are many happy, newly rich people...
...that they are merely extending to the university the same strictures that apply in the workplace: when there is power involved, whether between boss and employee or teacher and student, a sexual relationship opens the door to extortion, exploitation and favoritism. Drawing the lines more boldly, they argue, will protect friendly faculty from oversensitive students, as well as vulnerable students from lascivious professors...
...circulate a how-to manual for clinic attacks that explains how to superglue locks, build bombs and burn clinics. Most alarming, in January a new group called the American Coalition of Life Activists released a "deadly dozen" list of abortion doctors. The Justice Department quickly dispatched U.S. marshals to protect the physicians, one of whom was tracked down on vacation in the Caribbean and met by marshals at the airport...
Nothing is more divisive than power and money. Only four years after the U.S. and its allies set up an enclave in northern Iraq to protect 4 million Kurds from annihilation by Saddam Hussein's vengeful army, the Kurds are threatening to annihilate themselves--because two rival leaders each hope to establish and control an independent Kurdistan overlapping the borders of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. Massoud Barzani, who leads the western half of the enclave, is shy, soft spoken and uncomfortable around foreigners. Jalal Talabani, who controls the east, is a garrulous jet-setter who mixes well at embassy...