Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they could be busted under the same laws that put mobsters behind bars. In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal anti-racketeering RICO law can be used against anti-abortion groups. Also today, the Senate voted 98-0 to call for federal authorities to protect abortion clinics.GIRDING FOR BATTLE? Meanwhile, volunteer escorts at two Pensacola abortion clinics -- including the one at which the Pensacola doctor and his escort were killed last Friday -- will now be provided with bulletproof vests, courtesty of the Feminist Majority, a national foundation...
...Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, which is bursting at the seams from the region's population boom, rangers have closed down a ski area and dismantled three dams to restore the land for elk and sheep grazing. To protect the alpine terrain above the timberline, rangers have closed off a favorite breeding haunt of the endangered bighorn sheep near Crater Lake...
...doctors attacking managed care insist that they are only trying to protect the quality of medicine. Says Dr. James Todd, executive vice president of the A.M.A.: "Do you really want your doctor to have to call an 800 number at an insurance company somewhere when you are sick and take orders from someone he doesn't know and who may know nothing about medicine?" Other fee- for-service doctors echo his concern. In Houston, Dr. Robert Maidenberg says that he and 36 other physicians were dropped by Aetna's network because they cared too much about their patients. "Nobody ever...
...issue has divided Cambridge intoconservationists who wish to protect the CharlesRiver basin from 18-wheelers and hungryCambridge-port residents who want a convenientplace to shop...
...police officers will protect and serve Cambridge on 10-speeds. The cops will respond to emergency calls and patrol the city, "just like normal cops, only on bikes," says Frank T. Pasquarello, a police spokesperson...