Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turf staked out by Bob Dole. Thursday's subject: Curfews for minors. A day after Dole delivered a speech touching on a similar theme in California, Clinton used an appearance before the New Orleans Church of God in Christ to embrace the idea of curfews as a way to protect children and prevent them from getting involved in criminal activity. In touting the "dusk to dawn" curfew in New Orleans, Clinton said curfews are needed to "bring more order and structure and discipline" to young people's lives. The New Orleans curfew is credited with reducing crime in the city...
...heart of our relationship with Russia. We have a shared interest in improving the security of nuclear arsenals and reactors, implementing arms-control agreements and preventing nuclear proliferation. We have a clear stake in working with Russia for peace in the former Yugoslavia. Together, we should continue to protect the environment and fight organized crime and terrorism...
...chances of success were good. Mount Everest is a tough climb, to be sure, but not the monster it once was. Weathers, 50, a wealthy pathologist from Dallas, is not a professional mountaineer. But he was in the best shape of his life. He had clothing designed to protect him to 80 degrees below zero. And he had paid $60,000 to Rob Hall--a renowned New Zealand climber and guide who had seen 39 people like Weathers to the top of the world in the past four years. "Rob felt we all had a very good chance of reaching...
...temperament, that you're a big, good-natured, stable, tough-minded optimist. You also need to show that you're genuinely thoughtful, that you have been watching and thinking about America for a half-century and have come to conclusions that are now convictions about how to preserve and protect...
When the rags-to-riches U.S. immigrant returned to his Balkan homeland in July 1992 to be Prime Minister and challenge Slobodan Milosevic's power, some cynics saw it merely as a way to protect the Yugoslav interests of his company, ICN Pharmaceuticals. Panic may have been naive--he lost a fraud-wracked presidential election against Milosevic on Dec. 20, 1992, and was ousted as P.M. nine days later--but his idealism was genuine. Today Panic has "no interest in politics," he says, preferring to act as an informal economic adviser to the region. He also still runs...