Word: protect
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...afraid of the foreigners. If they try to harm you, I will stand in front of them.' HAMID KARZAI, Afghan President, saying he would personally protect Taliban and other militant leaders from U.S. and NATO troops if they agreed to participate in peace talks...
Likewise, Harvard must also protect the football and avoid sloppy play in order to win. Last week in its defeat to Brown, the Crimson erred in the form of three costly fumbles, a missed extra point, and seven penalties. As a result, Coach Tim Murphy harped on protecting the football all week...
...rarity. Only 121 of the more than 11,000 fisheries Costello and his team studied were using the system. But Gunnar Knapp, an economist at the University of Alaska, says the idea of privatizing fish is catching on as fishermen realize that it may be the best way to protect fish - and their own jobs...
...that, for institutions that avail themselves of a government or central bank rescue operation, the managements concerned lose their jobs, and the shareholders lose their money. This is not vindictiveness: it is needed to prevent moral hazard and to ensure more prudence in future, and of course to protect the taxpayer. As for oversight, banks and other financial institutions clearly need to be far better capitalized than the existing rules require...
...that will be incorporated into the security forces can at least protect themselves, but what about the 80%?" the sheikh asks. "How are they going to protect themselves against al-Qaeda, against the terrorists...