Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservationists want to preserve the Ndoki, but they're not all convinced that the current plan is the right way. Will the proposed park encompassing 450,000 hectares (1.1 million acres) in the forest core be a safe refuge? Or will it bring hordes of loggers, developers and tourists into the surrounding territory...
...desire to visit this extraordinary place was tempered not so much by the prospect of hardship as by the feeling that perhaps the Ndoki should be left alone. It has been protected for millenniums by its inaccessibility. Should there not be somewhere on earth where nature can be safe from the heavy hand of humanity? Journalists, explorers and scientists can inadvertently set in motion the destruction of the places they are trying to protect...
...those who aren't too modest about the subject, T-shirts advocate safe sex and the wonders of rubbers. It's toooo biiiig," says one. Another shirt says. "See Dick and Jane. See Dick go. See Jane grow. Don't Be a Dick." Below that warning, Dick and Jane grin broadly, clutching condom wrappers in their little stick fingers. Emergency condoms are provided in the neck label...
...attract back" working families that "can serve as role models for the 80% of our residents who are still on welfare. Low rents help," he concedes, "but most productive people wouldn't even consider living in our buildings if we weren't gaining a reputation for providing a safe environment -- and that view would be impossible if we weren't sweeping aggressively...
Soon after his disappearance, FBI agents recovered letters demanding a ransom of millions of dollars from Exxon for his safe return. In one note the '90s-style kidnappers made a particularly unsophisticated request: that a cellular-telephone number be established through which further contact would be made. As the alleged culprits, Arthur and Irene Seale, later learned to their dismay, calls received on such phones can be traced...