Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like us. Now our moment of fleeting pity escalates into a moment of fleeting concern. Americans they may be, we comfort ourselves, but they probably work in some forsaken Pennsylvania factory and wear shirts with their names embroidered in cursive above the breast pocket. But the defense mechanisms that protect us from the moral tentacles of empathy are foiled yet again. The men and women being axed are not blue collar. Actually, they're wearing white shirts and ties and might even have a cellular phone tucked in the glovebox of their Ford Taurus. They might as well...
...government should make laws that prevent others from drinking and driving. If we know that abortion is morally wrong, then it is not sufficient to rely on individual choice. The government should take a stance as it does with other moral injustices like drunk driving. We need to protect the right to life for all people...
...standards would protect nearly 50 million more Americans from the adverse health effects of smog, including 13 million children, Browner said...
...after all that effort, and just when they should be reaching that nice, cushiony air at 31,000 ft. or so, the industry is running smack into turbulence in the form of employees who are insisting on a share of the good fortune. The employees are also determined to protect themselves, as American's pilots are, from outsourcing and other forms of cost management. The result is escalating tension in an industry not known for touchy-feely labor relations to begin with...
...sense and decency. She is supposed to seduce Juvenal on behalf of the siding salesman, but she knows a good man when she sees one, in part because they so rarely traverse the moral flatlands she has been obliged to inhabit. She also knows she had better treasure and protect this one without dithering too long over the matter. Goodness is ever an endangered species--and evil is ever a dangerous...