Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peru has an added worry because of support the Shining Path has among the peasants who grow coca. The rebels protect the peasants against a U.S.-financed coca eradication program, in return collecting a "tax" of 10 to 15 percent of their earnings...
Following student protests against restrictions on free speech, the president of Tufts University abolished a policy designed to protect students from sexist and racist comments, Tufts announced last week...
...that is happy to throw social issues back into Congress's lap," says University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard. "It wants legislatures to spell out how laws should apply." The attitude appalls many liberals, who argue that the basic purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect the weak and unpopular from the tyranny of majority rule by legislatures. But the court's deference toward the political branches cheers many conservatives. "That's democracy," insists court commentator Bruce Fein. "Let the political process fill its traditional role...
...always our intent to protect the parents and the students and the teachers so that they would not have to get involved in anything political," says Myette...
Waterhouse St. resident Vera F. Bisell said the group is encouraging people to engrave identification numbers on valuable items and holding meetings on how to protect homes from burglars...