Word: defenseless
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...window. We have not seen any increased patrols, campus lighting or blue light telephones over the past year. And what about interhouse card-key access, another promise Rawlins made last year? While non-interhouse access protects the students inside the buildings, it leaves the students walking on the streets defenseless. The council should not settle for anything less than 24-hour interhouse card-key access...
...Defenseless victims "were not held down by any employees," said James J. Rafferty, attorney for Cranston Inc., the parent company of The Spaghetti Club...
...widespread (perhaps 2,000 to 3,000 cases a year; the U.S. equivalent would be 40,000 to 60,000) and abused. Indeed, legalization has resulted in so much abuse--not just psychological pressure but a shocking number of cases of out-and-out involuntary euthanasia, inconvenient and defenseless patients simply put to death without their consent--that last year the Dutch government was forced to change its euthanasia laws...
...directive handed down several weeks earlier that if planes flown by the Brothers to the Rescue appeared to be trespassing on Cuban airspace, as they often had in the previous year and a half, they must be stopped by any means necessary. The brutality of the attack on the defenseless Cessnas seems to have been of little consequence to Castro. But from the point of view of his own self-interest, the assault was irrational. It destroyed any hope for warmer ties with the U.S., and will probably chase away foreign investment that he needs to revive his moribund economy...
...exclusive conversation with Reginald K. Brack Jr., chairman of Time Inc., Joelle Attinger, TIME's chief of correspondents, and Cathy Booth, the Miami bureau chief, Castro tried to explain and justify shooting down the two defenseless planes...