Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe we have to instill a great deal of joy and confidence in our children before they get to be teenagers in order to protect them through those hard years. Parents tend to blame themselves for things that are culture-wide. The difference between moderate experimentation and catastrophic drug taking is vast. We should not get desperately alarmed about mild social experimentation. But we should get desperately alarmed about the child who is compelled to use drugs. The flat rules like "Just say no" are easy to pronounce but hard to enforce. It's so easy to make that kind...
...ambulance giants fight for valuable hospital and HMO contracts, they must now fend off a backdraft of sorts from public fire departments eager to protect their jobs and budgets. In most communities, fire fighters answer 911 calls. But after treating and stabilizing victims, they often hand off the transport of the injured to a private ambulance--as in Aurora--which collects the entire bill, upwards of $1,000 for a seriously injured patient...
Besides the simple precaution of not walking alone or during late hours, Huff said students should take further precautions to protect themselves...
...strings of 1s and 0s represent their corporate crown jewels; once a master digital file falls into a pirate's hands, it can be copied and recopied, each new generation just as good as the first. That's why music companies are always looking for better ways to protect what's known as their intellectual property--if not with tougher trade laws then with more powerful encryption...
...putting the baby into a plastic bag and hurling it into a dumpster. She may have been modeling herself after the parents of another privileged teenager who provided their son Alex Kelly with a life of European ease after he was accused of rape. Surely a lion must protect her cub, but there's a point when instinct must give way to morality...