Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rambouillet hadn?t reckoned with the deep historical attachment to Kosovo across the political spectrum in Serbia. It would have been difficult for any politician to concede to NATO?s demands, let alone for Milosevic, who?d built his nationalist credentials on the promise to protect Kosovo?s Serbs, and whose officer corps was even more nationalist than he. Moreover, the Dayton analogy may have been stretched, in the sense that Dayton came after a three-year ground war that had left both sides exhausted. The Serbs called NATO?s bluff, leaving the alliance compelled to respond forcefully...
...protect their own legal liability and to teach undergraduates a lesson, a handful of graduate members made an unscheduled stop by the club just before the party. And stayed...
...graduate board, as the elder group, perhaps feels naturally compelled to act as the supervising body, enforcing rules and regulating membership and guest visits in order to protect themselves even if they may be just out of college...
...analogous to a rape victim, with all the connotations that that status brings. They struggle with powerlessness, voicelessness and self-loathing. White America is analogous to the rapist, associated with an inverse, if equally resonant, set of images. They struggle with guilt, cultural ignorance and the desire to protect their own privilege...
...Weissman gift will secure the ability ofHarvard to preserve its priceless collections ofbooks and manuscripts," Director of the UniversityLibrary Sidney H. Verba '53 wrote in an e-mailmessage. "The Harvard collection is one of thegreatest in the world and that creates anobligation on the University to protect it forcurrent use and for future generations...