Word: protect
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...Leaders in at least one Asian city that's poised for a gambling boom appear to recognize the need to take at least a few measures to protect the vulnerable few. In July, Singapore's National Council on Problem Gambling introduced a responsible-gambling code of practice, urging casinos to display numbers for gambling hotlines and to train staff on how to help problem gamblers. In an effort to keep Singaporeans who can't afford the vice away from the tables when the city's two planned casinos open in 2009, locals will be required to pay a $68 cover...
City Councillor Henrietta Davis, who was on the council when it first considered making the area a historic landmark, urged the commission to initiate a new study to protect the area...
...this dynamic: Consider Kwame Nkrumah’s fall from grace in post-colonial Ghana. Prior to decolonization, Nkrumah wrote prolifically and incisively on the perversities of imperialism in Africa. Yet, once in power, confronted by threats to the privilege that he had been elected into, Nkrumah moved to protect his position by repressing autonomous politics, once even telling agitating workers that their “former role of struggling against capitalists [was] obsolete.” Thus, regardless of the impressive credentials of those aspiring to power, the commitment to utilizing the privileges of the system to push...
...Part of the government’s role is to protect and provide health care to its veterans and all its citizens,” she said. “And our government is failing in that regard...
...This is far from the truth. Libertarians believe that the fundamental right of humans is a right to freedom and to protection of that freedom by a very limited government. Classical liberals believe they should be able to do what they want with their stuff and in return they’ll leave other people’s stuff alone. The only reason to create government in this laissez-faire world is for minute regulations to protect this liberty...