Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more relaxed, according to reports from Haiti. Other U.S. soldiers fanned out over the countryside, where Haitians still afraid of the junta's trigger-happy attaches have hidden.POLITICAL TROUBLE AHEAD? In the city, President Emile Jonnaissant announced that his government would vote on an amnesty decree to protect junta supporters -- part of last Sunday's agreement with former President Jimmy Carter. But nearly half the Haitian Parliament has expressed opposition...
...Hardaway brothers' turn. Authorities say gang leaders, who can easily order hits in any prison in the state, may have the Hardaways targeted next. Both boys were arrested and are being held in protective custody. As for the other children in Yummy's neighborhood, when they are asked what would make them feel safer, most give the same answer: getting a gun. Among other things, it would protect them from the children who already have them...
...time there was no way I could put somebody else in that position," Nero said. "As director of my program, I also try to protect my counselors and my kids. [Osborne] did a dumb thing, but her Harvard education should not be put at risk any more than mine should...
...longer sure they want the President to win. That the issue, once a sure plus for Democrats, is now a more complicated blessing is evident in Pennsylania, where Democratic Senator Harris Wofford is in a tricky race against Rick Santorum, a Republican Congressman who promises to protect voters from government interference in their health-care decisions. It was Wofford's surprise victory three years ago over Dick Thornburgh, after a campaign that made health-care reform an issue, that first alerted politicians to its potential. But while Wofford is far ahead of Santorum in fund raising this year, their contest...
...representing the people -- yearns for her, despite having found a young lover. She -- the government -- is enticed by a young love but rejects him. In the end, he is alone, using a pickax to batter at the wall. On the other side, she pulls back her possessions, trying to protect her way of life. "Won't you help me?" he yells...