Word: safe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...killed in August 2004. Steven Vincent, an American freelancer, was killed in Basra in August 2005. The number of Iraqi journalists killed or kidnapped is much higher. ?Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism,? said Aidan White, General Secretary for the International Federation of Journalists. ?No journalist is safe once they take to the streets...
...Lowell House dining hall.“At Tulane I hated going to the dining hall,” she says. “[Here] I feel this sense of community even though I don’t have that many friends. It’s just really a safe, nice place.”Senior Sarah M. Miller and her friends often went to Lowell’s Stein Clubs and attended the House’s Yule ball, which she says was “so much fun.”Christopher M. Ordoyne, a Tulane sophomore, even...
Then again, on Sept. 11, 2001, almost 3,000 people died because they showed up at comfortable, safe jobs as secretaries, traders and flight attendants. For a brief cultural moment, 9/11 turned average Americans into coal miners; that is, it suddenly became plausible to ask, "If I die today doing this job, will it have been worth it?" But unlike the the horror of 9/11, when millions watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center on live TV, a mine collapse is horrifying for the opposite reason: we see nothing and hear nothing. A group of men is either...
...demoted partisans like liberal environmental activist Terry Tamminen and Kennedy's predecessor, conservative Republican Patricia Clarey. He is courting?or, some suggest, co-opting? Democrats on pet issues like raising the minimum wage and freezing tuition at state colleges. But at the same time, he followed the politically safe precedent?no California Governor had commuted a death sentence in 38 years?and denied clemency to death-row inmate Stanley (Tookie) Williams...
...other pernicious effects. If the money used to buy gold was invested in banks or stocks, rather than being locked up in a non-productive asset, it would boost India's GDP significantly, they say. But old ways of thinking die hard. Gold is seen by many as a safe haven in an uncertain world. "So many banks fail and close their doors, and ordinary people get hurt when that happens," says Jhansi Rani, a schoolteacher in Madras, pointing out the case of a close relative who had deposited his pension money in a private bank, only...