Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Party organization and its popular boss, Slobodan Milosevic, defied a government demand that the protests be stopped. Late in the week the government in Belgrade attempted to defuse the increasingly tense standoff by agreeing to send a Serbian police unit into a Kosovo village to help federal authorities protect the local Serbs...
...Just to sit on the ball and watch the seconds tick away was the one play I'll never forget," Hinz says. "I'll probably never forget falling on Tom so we could protect the ball and run out the clock. We had all come so far. We all felt so deserving because of how hard we had all worked...
...fatuously sunny as Bush's. And Dukakis, like Bush, asks nothing of voters except to lie back and enjoy it. Those who do fear that American civilization might be on a downward slope think the inability of our leaders to make any demands whatsoever of citizens to protect our freedom and prosperity is both evidence and engine of that decline. They find know-nothing remarks like the Vice President's reaction to the shooting down of the Iranian civilian airliner -- "I will never apologize for the United States of America, I don't care what the facts are" -- a sign...
...bigger, safer bridge. The new span, which opened last year, employs a graceful monopole design in which supporting cables radiate from two central towers. The roadway has four extra-wide lanes and ten-foot shoulders to enable drivers with car trouble to pull out of traffic. Thick concrete bumpers protect the bridge's main piers against maritime collisions...
...thwarted our efforts to professionalize the board of assesors even after a report from the state Department of Revenue," said State Sen. Salvatore R. Albano (D-Somerville). "She attempted to protect her brother...