Word: protecters
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Experts also point out that much investment in computers does not even aim at increasing productivity. It is intended to expand or protect market share. Computers can be misused too, especially by businessmen who buy them to keep up with the corporate Joneses. "We have clients who buy the most expensive laptops and systems and then just run an ordinary word-processing program," says Alex Reppen, a New York computer consultant, who notes, "People try to automate things that really have no business being automated...
...know you should eat your vegetables. You know they help protect you against cancer and heart disease. But if you're like most Americans, you've heard only half the message. Vegetable consumption has jumped 20% in the U.S. over the past quarter-century, according to a study in last week's issue of Cancer. Trouble is, we're still not eating enough of the leafy green vegetables, like spinach, brussels sprouts and broccoli, that do the most to promote good health. Instead half of all the vegetable servings we consume are potatoes--and half of those are French fries...
Rowe was a Washington insider, a lobbyist hired four years ago to protect Harvard's funding and academic freedoms from Republican budget cutters...
Kosovo represents one more failure of the world community to protect the victimized and maintain international stability. While the conflict is finally getting some deserved attention, the recent progress may be too little and is most certainly too late...
...matches it. Preserving that supremacy, at least in the tiny chink of the sea that belongs to her native Jordan, is the goal of Princess Basma Bint Ali, a cousin of King Hussein's. Princess Basma, 28, is president of the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Society, which works to protect the delicate undersea world in the Gulf of Aqaba off Jordan's 16 miles of southern coast...