Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same rules, and none are allowed within 1,000 feet of schools or playgrounds. After fashioning this policy missile, the Clinton camp hurled it right at Bob Dole, who half-heartedly defended tobacco last month, questioning whether it was really addictive. "Bob Dole faces a big decision today: protect children or protect the tobacco lobby," said Administration spokesman Joe Lockhart. "Dole will defend himself by bringing up the Administration's bad record on the drug issue," says TIME's John Dickerson. "Right now, the drug issue is a powerful one, and it is one reason why Clinton seized...
...beauty of the game is that it traces the arc of life. Until mid-August, baseball was a boy in shorts whooping it up in the fat grass. Now it becomes a leery veteran with a sunbaked neck, whose main concern is to protect the plate. In its second summer, baseball is about fouling off death...
...runner on first has a notion to steal second. The first baseman has a notion to slip behind him. The pitcher has a notion to pick him off, but he delivers to the plate where the batter swings to protect the runner who decides to go now, and the second baseman braces himself to make the tag if only the catcher can rise to the occasion and put a low, hard peg inside...
...Looks like the wonder drug ASPIRIN can't do it all. It may lower the risk of colon cancer and heart attack, but researchers report, in a reversal of previous findings, that the drug does nothing to protect against breast cancer...
However, acknowledging that terror-proofing the entire country would be neither practical nor fully successful should not prevent us from taking reasonable measures to protect innocent lives...