Word: protecters
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...Salem Statesman Journal and the Portland Oregonian, is actually an old one, dating from 1983. The Washington Post printed her account of the episode in February 1993. However, the woman, now 29, did not take it to the Ethics Committee until July 19--partly because she wanted to protect her privacy and partly because she was skeptical about whether the panel would give it a fair hearing, explained her lawyer W. Neil Eggleston. Even then her complaint languished with the staff for weeks, until Aug. 3, the day after the Senate's 52-to-48 vote against holding public hearings...
...plan would leave the Bosnian Muslims with Sarajevo, the central core of Bosnia, the Bihac pocket and the area near Krajina. Gorazde, the remaining "safe area" in the east that NATO pledged itself to protect three weeks ago, would probably be allowed to pass into the hands of the Bosnian Serbs. The Muslims would be offered military training and arms, as well as a significant commitment of U.S. ground troops and air power to protect their boundaries from Serb encroachment. The ground troops, up to 25,000 of them, would be "peace enforcers" with liberal rules of engagement. They would...
Essentially docile, bats play a vital role in maintaining ecological balance. For one thing, they protect crops from marauding insects. The 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats that roost in Bracken Cave near San Antonio, Texas, from spring to fall consume 250 tons of insects every night as they swarm to altitudes of 10,000 ft. Farmers are not the only ones who benefit. A single little brown bat can speedily clear a suburban backyard of pesky mosquitoes, lapping up 600 bugs an hour...
Meanwhile, the Senate circled the wagons to protect its own from public hearings. O.J. Simpson pleads innocent and is subjected to spectacle, while a senior senator admits (and lately retracts admission of) wrongdoing and the juicy details are kept secret? Not in a demcratic system, surely...
...simple answers, so I am conscious of the many simplifications that my arguments contain. But although I do not pretend to understand entirely the complicated motives of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, I find it extremely hard to believe that either president acted out of some idealistic desire to protect basic human rights and democracy in Panama or Kuwait. The motives behind their actions seem almost transparent, and it is tempting to label them nothing but materialistic...