Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extraordinary security force--4000 strong--was deployed to protect the leaders at the two-day "celebration of democracy" arranged by Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias...
...reserve to protect the African rainforest should be established in Zaire, despite the objections of many Western governments and the country that would host it, a visiting professor of anthropology told about 50 people in Boylston Hall last night...
...economic summit in Paris in July, the leaders of the seven largest industrial democracies devoted a third of their final communique to an appeal for "decisive action" to "understand and protect the earth's ecological balance." Just a month earlier, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, representing the major economic powers, had called upon "all relevant national, regional and international organizations" of its 24 member states to take a "vigilant, serious and realistic" look at "balancing long- term environmental costs and benefits against near-term economic growth...
Congress should take action before RICO smothers what so many have worked so hard to protect...
THERE are, of course, serious problems with out-of-court settlements on constitutional cases. First, ad hoc settlements cannot guarantee a national solution to a problem. It may solve Illinois' abortion woes, or Michigan's gender discrimination case, but there will not be a national standard to protect such rights...