Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since crime reports are published in newspapers, many victims are afraid to do anything about gay bashing because they know there are no civil rights statutes to protect them against job or housing discrimination, says David M. Osborne, aide to State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge...
...protect the identity of the counselors and the students they help, the names of all ECHO staff quoted in this article have been changed...
...reason Frank says he revealed his homosexuality was to square his private and public lives, to protect himself from the Gobies of the world who don't abide by the tacit social contract among former spouses and lovers not to talk because they know so much. When that pact is broken, the results can be devastating. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, an able Senator for two terms, lost his seat to challenger Paul Tsongas amid divorce proceedings in 1978, damaged by press reports that focused on the breakup of his marriage...
...legitimacy and the very existence of the G.D.R. that Honecker is trying to protect by rejecting reform, though the impression he generates is more akin to paralysis. The air of confusion and impotence in East Berlin has intensified since he dropped out of sight on Aug. 14. Officially, he is recuperating from a gallbladder operation, but the whispers have grown louder that he has cancer. Even if Honecker's political life is over, his successor | is not expected to deviate from the status quo course Honecker has set. The consensus among the Politburo's 26 members (average...
...successful, the suit could be a landmark for national parks trying to reach outside their boundaries to protect their ecosystems. The "river of grass," as the Everglades was named by naturalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, is one of the largest wetlands systems in the world, and the most imperiled. Despite the protection of the national park, the population of wading birds has dropped from more than 2.5 million in the 1930s to 250,000. Thirteen Everglades animals are now endangered species. Only about 30 Florida panthers remain, and in recent years several have been killed on roads cutting through the area...