Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During World War I, 30,000 prostitutes were incarcerated in barbed-wire camps to protect American soldiers from venereal disease. In 1986, the rightwing political figure Lyndon LaRouche proposed the quarantine of homosexuals to protect the rest of America's population from AIDS...
Instead of taking action against divestment activists when they erected shanties in the Yard last Spring, Harvard police actually helped protect them from attack from conservative groups on campus...
...family is living on edge. A second of the four victims has died, but two are in remission. "In the back of our minds is the question of whether or not we are carriers," says one. "If they can find out what triggered me," she says, "maybe we can protect my children as well as Joe Blow. I just wouldn't want anyone to go through what we went through...
...suits dramatize Robertson's intention to fight any hint that he sought to evade combat duty in Korea. In libel cases, however, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff. It is likely to be difficult for Robertson to prove that his father did not use senatorial influence to protect him from combat. But if he is hoping that the prospect of an expensive, time-consuming suit will force a retraction from McCloskey, Robertson has underestimated his old shipmate. "Unfortunately, it will cost so much," says McCloskey. "But there is nothing like cross-examination to bring out the truth...
...AIDS attack. "The real goal," says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), should be "to simultaneously suppress the virus and build up the immune response in the patient." Other researchers are concentrating on preventing the disease, experimenting with vaccines designed to protect healthy people from infection by the virus...