Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leading P.L.O. official in Gaza, estimated that it would take a week for Palestinian security forces to establish order. There was powerful motivation, since Israel has made further withdrawals in the West Bank conditional on the success of the Gaza-Jericho experiment. "We have an enormous responsibility to protect our achievements," said Lieut. Colonel Munther Irshaid, the P.L.O. officer in charge of municipal affairs in Jericho. "We cannot afford mistakes." On that, Israelis and Palestinians were in total agreement last week...
...endured in the long run. Even in the earliest days after the Inauguration in 1961, she located the saner and contrary principle in a memo she wrote to her press secretary: "I feel strongly that publicity in this era has gotten completely out of hand -- and you must really protect the privacy of me and my children...
...recent weeks, the controversy over Stop & Shop has pitted neighbor against neighbor, dividing the city between conservationists who want to protect the Charles River basin from 18-wheelers and hungry Cambridgeport residents who want a convenient place to shop...
...Army tanker. She now lives in a shelter for battered women in Killeen, Texas, just outside huge Fort Hood. She moved there after her husband bit her, beat her and threatened her with a knife. "There's a lot of women in here married to soldiers whose sergeants protect them if they're good soldiers," she says. "They can't control their superiors on the job, so they control us." Although her husband admitted under oath last month in a Texas courtroom that he is married to two women, he remains in the Army. "He was under...
First come the corpses of men and older boys, slain trying to protect their sisters and mothers. Then come the women and girls, flushed out from their hiding places and cut down. Last are the babies, who may bear no wounds: they are tossed alive into the water, to drown on their way downstream. The bodies, or pieces of them, glide by for half an hour or so, the time it takes to wipe out a community, carry the victims to the banks and dump them in. Then the water runs clear for awhile, until men and older boys drift...