Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis described the vote as "ill-advised, wrong-headed and a total disregard for the responsibility governors and states have to protect the public health and safety of their citizens...
...There's been a meltdown in the NRC's star chamber," Dukakis is said. "The commission's action to strip governors of their power to protect the men, women and children of their states is as alarming as it is lacking in common sense...
...profit for a year. The law forbids killing them. If the elephants and giraffes and lions pay for themselves by bringing in the tourists and their dollars, if they prove their worth, then perhaps the governments of Africa will, before it is too late, organize the political will to protect them as a natural resource. But what do wild animals mean...
Moreover, Regan and others have contradicted some portions of McFarlane's story, most notably his insistence that the President gave prior approval to Israeli sales of arms to Iran in 1985. McFarlane was wounded by what he took to be implications that he was lying to protect himself. Whether for physical reasons or because of internalized stress or both, McFarlane suffered worsening back spasms this winter. The future seemed to hold only increasing strain. McFarlane confided to friends that he expected a "long, difficult spring" of being questioned on TV at one congressional hearing after another, and then seeing...
...they have committed. Aquino made her position clear at midweek during her address before 400 soldiers at Camp Aguinaldo. "Send this message out to all our troops so that none may be misled to relax their vigilance to their peril and that of the people they are charged to protect," she told the troops. "The new armed forces will resume operations against the insurgents. We shall have law-and-order throughout the country...