Word: protecters
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...Iranian test gives conservatives in Congress a new argument for deployment of ballistic-missile defenses to protect U.S. troops in the Middle East. For the moment, though, the White House won't drop its effort to improve ties with Iran. Sending friendly signals to President Khatami is even more important now--"to get Iran to stop developing a ballistic-missile program," a senior Clinton aide insists. Perhaps, but Khatami is not the one with his finger on the launch button...
Tucker said the conferences' goal is to explore the ways in which different world religions conceive of environmental ethics, and how their existing mores might be interpreted to protect the ecosystem...
Businesses are paying attention. Computer firm Lucent Technologies has added "gender-identity characteristics or expression" to its equal-opportunity policy. The University of Iowa has similar language, and in February, Rutgers adopted more limited protections for "people who have changed or are in the process of changing" their sex. Last year Harvard allowed an incoming female-to-male freshman to live on a male dorm floor. Campus groups have asked the college to formally protect transgenders, but Harvard being Harvard, the university is studying the issue. Transgenders are pushing ahead in the courts as well. In a little-noticed...
Inflation hasn't reared its ugly head of late, but the Treasury wants investors to be ready if it returns. Last week the government introduced a new class of affordable, inflation-indexed savings bonds to protect investors even if the cost of living is ballooning. Interest on the bonds, which debut Sept. 1 in denominations ranging from $50 to $10,000, will be tax deferred until cashed in and may be tax exempt if used to help fund college or other higher learning...
...itself, tenure isn't an awful idea. Most judges and university professors have it. Its noble purpose is to protect teachers from being fired unjustly because, say, they won't teach creationism. And teacher unions point out that tenure confers basic due process...