Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's what critics of the fishing industry find so encouraging--and so frustrating. Last year, for example, Congress passed landmark legislation that requires fishery managers to crack down on overfishing in U.S. waters. Perhaps even more impressive, the U.N. has produced a tough-minded treaty that promises to protect stocks of fish that straddle the coastal zones of two or more countries or migrate, as bluefin tuna and swordfish do, through international waters in the wide-open oceans. The treaty will take effect, however, only after 30 or more nations ratify it--and even then, some question how diligently...
With chants of "Love is good / sex is great / if you care / you'll wanna wait" and waving signs with slogans including "Condoms Can't Protect The Heart" the demonstrators spoke against premarital sex, abortion and birth control while other volunteers urged passersby to sign a sexual "purity pledge...
...Moore and Willis have also taken action against an Australian magazine called New Idea, which said Demi's obsession with fitness and an eating disorder were rupturing their happy home. "We are not filing this for financial gain," says Willis about the $5 million suit, "but to protect our reputation...
WHAT KILLED THE BOOM To protect its merchant fleet, Holland built an armada larger than the British and French navies combined. But the cost of this outsize national defense caused taxes to rise sharply, and the Netherlands still lost its naval supremacy. The result was the end of Dutch mastery...
...products like Gap jeans and McDonald's burgers. But they want NAFTA-generated wealth to be more widely distributed through the population, and they blame the government for a growing gap between the rich and poor. The opposition parties they supported have campaigned for modifications in NAFTA that would protect particularly vulnerable sectors of the economy, like agriculture and small manufacturing...