Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cuban society, the chance to play a larger role within the traditional Catholic concerns of education, charity, public worship. The dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall crushed all that, eliminating any interest Castro had in rapprochement with the church. He needed every ounce of his strength and ingenuity to protect the revolution. The Catholic Church lost much in that period too. The young fled the island in record numbers, seeking salvation in the American Dream. Priests had no resources to provide the charitable aid people desperately needed; Cubans were too busy scrounging for necessities to attend religious services...
BAGHDAD: "There's going to be a war" ? the prediction of former Clinton campaign guru James Carville Sunday. He meant, of course, a war in Washington to protect Clinton's political reputation. But for Iraqis, who fear the other kind, the solution to the Lewinsky crisis could not have been put more succinctly...
...write is to respect, to honor the citizen and protect the privacy of those who haven't desired the spotlight but may have been born into...
WASHINGTON: At a breakfast in Washington last week, Mike McCurry was asked if it was de rigeur for a press secretary to lie to protect his boss. Typically, he opened with a joke: "Press secretaries cannot lie." Then he revealed the secret of success: truth was simply not his job. His term is that he is not "an original fact-finder." And if the President lied to him? "When there are prospects too horrible to contemplate, I don't contemplate them...
...ballooning soon becomes the stuff of daredevils (3). But in 1794 the world's first air force is born: warring France uses tethered balloons to observe and direct troops, a tactic later employed in the American Civil War. During WW II, barrage balloons (4) and their slicing cables help protect various sites, including London, against low-flying enemy planes. From the outset, balloons are used to study the atmosphere, eventually lifting men to the brink of space (5). Sports ballooning takes off in the 20th century. The Atlantic is crossed in 1978, the Pacific in 1981, both by U.S. teams...