Word: protecters
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Lewis recently proposed banning smoking in all residential houses to protect the health of smokers, students contemplating becoming smokers, and their roommates. Lewis hopes that a ban would persuade smokers to quit and dissuade non-smokers from picking up the habit. Wary of objections, Lewis believes his plan is palatable because "there's a lot of sentiment that would favor a complete [prohibition of] smoking among students." Should campus support for a ban not suffice, Lewis adds, "the general trend of society would support doing this...
House Republicans, a volatile and skittish group by nature, were worried enough about their re-elections to pass a massive, old-fashioned, pork-laden, budget-busting spending bill last week. The rallying cry was, "Take care of your district!" Meaning, "Protect your seat!" In district after district where Clinton is running plenty strong atop a buoyant economy, the President is a Wizard, a witch doctor, the guy with spooky, powerful voodoo; he can outlive, outlast, outmaneuver anything, even multiple, degrading, humiliating sex scandals. The G.O.P. members see the stories and then look at his numbers and look back...
Most of all, I think, Theodore Roosevelt would use the power of the White House in 1998 to protect our environment. His earliest surviving letter, written at age 10, mourns the cutting down of a tree, and he went on to become America's first conservationist President, responsible for five new national parks, 18 national monuments and untold millions of acres of national forest. Without a doubt, he would react toward the great swaths of farmland that are now being carbuncled over with "development" as he did when told that no law allowed him to set aside a Florida nature...
...turned her energies to a variety of reformist organizations, joining a circle of postsuffrage feminists dedicated to the abolition of child labor, the establishment of a minimum wage and the passage of legislation to protect workers. In the process she discovered that she had talents--for public speaking, for organizing, for articulating social problems. She formed an extraordinary constellation of lifelong female friends, who helped to assuage an enduring sense of loneliness. When Franklin was paralyzed by polio in 1921, her political activism became an even more vital force. She became Franklin's "eyes and ears," traveling the country gathering...
...great faceoff man can change the course of the game by controlling possession. He can protect momentum and facilitate scoring spurts where a hot offense scores quickly and the other team never touches the ball except to fish it out of the back...