Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catliff took more than just experience away from his international play--he must wear a two-foot metal and plastic brace to protect his wounded knee...
...about as durable as a Sherman Tank," Shattuck claims. "He knows when contact is coming, and he knows how to protect himself. He knows just when to attack...
...municipal swimming pool in Montana so their daughters can briefly escape the midday heat. The younger one almost drowns, and this frightening moment triggers a rush of memories in the mother, including the one that begins the story. As a child, she hated the adults who could not protect another child from death; now, thinking of her own daughters and a narrow escape, she hopes that she and her husband will "be forgiven, in time, for everything that had first to be seen and condemned by those children: whatever was flippant, arbitrary, careless, callous -- all our natural, and particular, mistakes...
...stock market, Larry Tisch has for decades inspired awe as an uncannily successful investor. He is cautious where others are carefree, daring while others are timid. In corporate boardrooms across the U.S., Tisch is known and feared as a tough negotiator who will disarm his strongest adversary and tenaciously protect his investments. To his 22,000 employees, the name Tisch is synonymous with an unerring ability to control any cost, expose any extravagance. From such talents a fortune has been forged: along with his brother, Loews President Preston Robert (Bob) Tisch, Larry has amassed a tidy family nest egg estimated...
...Democratic-controlled House, with Republicans in overwhelming accord, abandoned budgetary restraints -- and perhaps a few constitutional ones as well -- by passing a bill that would throw as much as $4 billion over the next three years into a wide array of antidrug efforts, permit the military to protect the country's borders from drug trafficking and impose a federal death penalty on those who commit murder while dealing in drugs. Across the country candidates were not only trying to top their opponents with radical proposals for tackling the problem but were challenging one another to urinating contests as a demonstration...