Word: bulwark
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...more years instead of two? The President's nascent re-election team believes it has found at least one answer in the public's level of discomfort with the Republican agenda. No longer able to advance much of his own legislative program, Clinton is positioning himself as a bulwark against his opponents' excesses, an above-the-fray arbiter protecting the otherwise undefended-women, senior citizens, minorities, working families, the whole middle class-against Republican zealots...
...political clout of the religious right has been steadily increasing, as evidenced by their decisive support of Republican candidates in the most recent elections. Leaders of the religious right promote the movement as a bulwark of morality and traditional Christian values in the midst of a decadent society. But their actions and shrill rhetoric are often at odds with the biblical principles they claim to support...
...Many whites believe their hold on power is the bulwark that keeps Lake Providence from descending into barbarity. "We don't have any colored leadership," says Captan Jack Wyly, a lawyer and prominent power broker who says he understands the blacks because long ago his ancestors owned theirs. "When I came home from the Army in 1945, 20% to 25% of our land was owned by blacks. But the welfare system has just undermined the incentive to work. When Daddy died, they'd sell their property, buy a Buick and go out West to Las Vegas or somewhere. They lost...
...other crops were destroyed, including Georgia's renowned peaches, which were almost ready for harvesting. Crop damage was expected to reach $100 million in Georgia alone. "I believe this was a 500-year flood," said Mayor B.K. Reynolds of Bainbridge, where National Guardsmen had hurriedly erected a 20-ft. bulwark around a fertilizer plant to prevent water from reaching the chemicals within, which would have released deadly fumes...
...dramatically underscored the delicacy of the new relationship, the Ames scandal could probably not have come at a worse time for the Clinton Administration: the furor has galvanized opposition to the President's unstinting support for Russian reform at a moment when there are disturbing signs that the bulwark behind that reform, Boris Yeltsin, may be buckling under pressure from hard-line forces...