Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Downes, who wrote the decision, stayed its enforcement until the expected blizzard of appeals is exhausted, which could take until well into next year. By that time, the wolves' numbers will surely have increased, making the job of removing the animals all the more difficult--and the battle to protect them all the more fierce. "I will fight with everything I have to keep the wolves in Yellowstone," says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. After more than a century on the run, the wolves themselves are accustomed to the struggle...
...sponsored community meetings, sergeants in charge of the respective neighborhood attend and interact with those they're sworn to protect...
What is also true is that the investments and prosperity Rubin is trying to protect belong not just to the banks but also to those same little old taxpayers all over the nation...
...seems awkward: as a young man, we're told, Billy fell loony in love with Eva, a visitor from Ireland, and after she went home, sent her passage money to return and marry him. For years he believed (as his best friend had told him, inventing the tale to protect the sanity of a fragile romantic) that she had died tragically on the eve of her departure. In fact she had married another man and used Billy's money to buy a gas station. This sad affair, which reads like a parody verse of Danny Boy, doesn't work...
Anyone can see that a beneficent tyrant could better protect us from foreign aggression. Without the constraints of a Congress, the tyrant could act more swiftly and effectively to prevent, or prosecute, foreign wars...