Word: buffer
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...world suspects the U.S. of coveting the country's reserves (the second largest in the world), Washington would be judged by its behavior on this score. It has been widely rumored that British forces would be given the task of holding the oil fields during hostilities to buffer the U.S. from adverse propaganda. But senior U.S. officials tell Time that such a role for the British has not been settled...
...region became a buffer zone for conflict between the Shi'ite Safavid Empire and the Ottoman Turks. Fearful that Shi'ite Islam would spread to Asia Minor, the Turks captured Baghdad and, with the exception of a Safavid period in the 17th century, stayed there until World...
...Center followed by step dancing at an Irish-American club. In a happy coincidence, the night’s activities matched Totman’s passions—she studied in Dublin last spring, and is interested in East Asian Studies—and provided plenty of conversation to buffer the inevitable on-camera, blind-date uneasiness...
...feel bad for the kids who grow up in luxurious homes like the ones in your story. Good luck to them as they adjust to sharing a bathroom with a bunch of people in a college dorm. As for parents who feel that they need a buffer zone from their children, maybe they shouldn't have kids in the first place. Americans ought to stop keeping up with the Joneses and instead own a modest home, live a debt-free lifestyle and get a dog. That's the plan my husband and I have. LISA GIASSA Bogota...
...pull back. "I love my children, and I spend enormous amounts of time with them--there is no escaping them," chuckles Veronica Fowler, a mother of three, who added a new master bedroom suite next to the expanded living room. "But there is [the idea of] creating a buffer zone. I desperately want a calm, clean, quiet place where I can go--maybe just for 15 minutes if I'm lucky--and read a book...