Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, hundreds of people, many with no more than a cotton wrap to protect them against sub-zero cold, queued up outside stores and gas stations to try to buy food, as well as fuel for their space heaters. As early as 3 a.m., young children were out in the freezing night, waiting outside bakeries that would not open for several hours and then might have only a few undersize loaves for sale. In Khair Khana, a residential area, a thousand women and children pushed and shoved for flour and fuel provided by the Soviets. Afghan soldiers thrashed...
...During your campaign, you promised not only no new taxes but also to protect Social Security, major weapons programs, farm subsidies. If you don't break the tax promise, do you feel you may have to give a little on some of those programs...
Probably the most vocal calls for harsher measures come from the Jewish settlers in the territories, who have increasingly become the main target of Palestinian stones. For months the 70,000 settlers, who claim the West Bank as their biblical right, have complained that the army is failing to protect them. When Shamir started to speak at a memorial service this month for two Israeli victims of the intifadeh, mourners yelled, "You are doing nothing!" Nor did the new battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them...
...ironic juxtapositions, so that the viewer is more likely to look, and think, twice. Yet another mushroom cloud, at first almost a cliche, becomes surreal as Communist Chinese cavalrymen are shown charging toward ground zero as part of a training exercise, riders and horses wearing special masks to protect them against the blast...
...described himself as "more moderate" than Graham. He also said he would favor Proposition 1-2-3, but only with safeguards that would protect minority and low-income citizens from "being squeezed out" by rent-control landlords interested in prospective condominium buyers...