Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight, his enemies were drawing blood, and so they all tried a game at the dinner table: Chelsea would pretend that she was her father, making speeches about why people should vote for her, and then he would attack her, say really mean things, so she would learn to protect herself. At first the exercises reduced the little girl to tears: "Why would anybody say things like that?" But after a while, Hillary later wrote, "she gradually gained mastery over her emotions"; she came to understand people's dark motives; and, finally, she would come back fighting, fully prepared...
...tripped up by his anger at Starr and the collapsing weight of his own double-talk. He essentially did not say he was sorry for what he had done; he was just sorry he got caught. The reason he lied was to protect himself, protect his family and--this was the biggest error of all--because the cops were after him. And then he appealed for us to make it all go away...
...only tell you I was motivated by many factors. First, by a desire to protect myself from embarrassment...
...political vacuum only compounds the financial crisis: While the government is no longer making any effort to defend the plummeting ruble and frenzied bankers go after dollars to protect their personal fortunes, Chernomyrdin looks set to simply ban trading in foreign currencies. The reinstated prime minister hopes to straddle the mutually exclusive demands of the Communists, whom he aims to bring into government, and the IMF, which he plans to hit up for more billions. "Chernomyrdin has given no sign of having a coherent policy to stop the meltdown in Moscow," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge...
Laurent Kabila has returned to his capital now that Angolan and Zimbabwean forces have slowed the advance of rebel forces. Kabila may find, however, that the Angolans will eventually switch sides. "Angola's only motivation is to protect its border from incursions by UNITA rebels," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "That's why they helped bring Kabila to power, and why they intervened when the rebels arrived, unannounced, in their backyard. But there's no reason why Angola can't reach an agreement with the rebels and their backers, Rwanda and Uganda...