Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success in pushing the crime rate down, is showing too little regard for individual rights--especially those of blacks and Hispanics, who are most often targets of alleged misconduct. "We cannot have the kind of country we want if people are afraid of those folks who are trying to protect them," President Clinton said during his press conference last Friday, after promising to seek $40 million from Congress for improved police training and recruitment...
...counties and could slow development in one of the fastest-growing regions of the U.S. For now, locals--who face restrictions on everything from how they generate electricity to how they wash their cars--are rallying to the cause, reacting with none of the fury that greeted measures to protect the spotted owl in 1990. There are, to be sure, some dissenting voices, and when the new policies begin to bite, there are likely to be more. The only thing that seems certain so far is that saving the salmon will be an uphill fight...
SUBURBS Homeowners must wash cars less often and limit pesticide and herbicide use, all of which produce toxic runoff. Water-saving toilets can help maintain river levels. Owners of riverfront homes must eliminate antierosion bulkheads, which keep sand and debris from replenishing kelp beds that protect baby salmon...
...women have never really rejoiced about the elegance, the subtleties and the extraordinariness of our being. Men, individually and collectively, have always known the real truth about the female being. And they have been guarding this secret for some time, even going to war to protect it. If we replace the word "body" with "being" when discussing both women and men, we can expand our attempts to truly understand each other's identity. JEANNE BELOVITCH Boston...
Park said that many North Korean leaders feel strongly about upholding socialism and "protect[ing] their system from capitalist consumption...