Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least pay lip service to ideas once considered heretical. The shift was detectable last February, when the new head of the N.E.A, Bob Chase, made an astounding admission before the National Press Club in Washington: "The fact is that in some instances we have used power...to protect the narrow interests of our members and not to advance the interests of our schools...
...standard-bearer of the Social Democratic Party, Schroder's slogan may be the prosaic "New Middle," but he has discarded years of leftist orthodoxy and learned from the mistakes of his predecessors. In 1990 the SPD promised to slow down the privatization of former East German industries to protect the workers; Schroder now preaches the need for the private sector to become more competitive by cutting labor costs. In 1994 the party proposed higher taxes on middle- and upper-income families; Schroder wants to cut the highest income tax rate from 53% to 47% and reduce corporate rates from...
...right and away, faster than that blue van ever could go. I see the incident as my own fault, even though driving with one's windows open should be an inalienable right. The world just isn't a safe place, and it's best to be scared, to protect oneself and to stay in safe situations...
...safety of Chinese rockets to alleged interference by Beijing in U.S. politics. As Branegan notes, "If it's in America's commercial interests to launch American satellites on Chinese rockets -- as the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations all believed -- then it's clearly in America's interests to protect its $200 million satellites by making sure those rockets don't blow...
...protect" kids from objectionable content online? That's the issue that refuses to die--especially in Congress, where yet more wrongheaded legislation that would force libraries and schools to put costly (and ineffectual) software "filters" on Internet-connected computers is afoot...