Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are alike in one key respect: the two incidents demonstrate how the public increasingly demands a risk-free society -- whatever the cost, and whether or not they can protect themselves. Immune from the ills that ail less affluent cultures, America has the luxury of fretting over the little things. It is the particular indulgence of baby boomers who believe that restraint of one's appetites, daily workouts and a lot of oat bran can delay aging indefinitely. To health-and-fitness puritans, sagging flesh and excess weight represent an inexcusable lack of vigilance. Accustomed to success in translating their...
...risk food, there is no such thing. Bruce Ames, chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of California, Berkeley, points out that up to 10% of a plant's weight is made up of natural pesticides. Says he: "Since plants do not have jaws or teeth to protect themselves, they employ chemical warfare." And many naturally produced chemicals, though occurring in tiny amounts, prove to be potent carcinogens in laboratory tests. Mushrooms and broccoli might be banned if they were judged by the same standards that apply to food additives. Declares Christina Stark, a nutritionist at Cornell University...
...from Barbara Bush to Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates pleaded with the President to outlaw the guns. For several weeks Bush had discussed the semiautomatic-weapons dilemma with his friend Senator James McClure, an Idaho Republican and staunch gun-rights defender. The President was torn between wanting to protect the rights of sportsmen and the lives of police officers...
...past 40 years, Moscow has had two goals in controlling its neighbors: to protect Soviet borders from the threat of the West and to provide trading partners and markets for Communism. Gorbachev appears to have altered these canons. He aims to rework if not junk the centralized and self- contained Communist economies. And he seems to consider the traditional definition of security, in the form of a chain of subservient states, no longer entirely relevant. In fact, his policies indicate that he probably considers revolution or economic collapse within the rigidly controlled Soviet empire a far more plausible threat than...
Looking back, British opposition politicians were critical of the authorities' apparent lack of response to the warning. They indignantly demanded an investigation. Among the questions they wanted answered: Was a cover-up under way to protect the Thatcher government? Huffed Frank Dobson, shadow leader of the House of Commons: "When is the Secretary of State ((for transport)) going to come to the House and tell us the truth and the whole truth for the first time...