Word: protection
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They may already have too much. In the late 1970s, several conservation- minde d states considered restrictions on fish finders, although no bills were ever signed into law. Now even some of the fishermen think measures to protect fish stocks may be needed. "The odds have almost become too lopsided," concedes Poveromo. "In three or four years, there may be no fish." One idea: limits on the number and kind of saltwater fish that can be taken on a single day, similar to the regulations states now set for catching freshwater species...
...Senate is a clubby place that takes pains to protect the minority from the majority. Helms has taken full advantage of that magnanimity, giving some to wonder, What is to protect the majority from Helms? His arsenal is primitive but effective: adding on dilatory amendments, filibustering, running hapless nominees through his congressional paddling machine. Some call it "porcupine power." As the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, he stands at a crucial thoroughfare. Again and again, he has turned the path of legislation and confirmation into his private turnpike -- pay Jesse's toll or wait forever. Last week...
...conservatives opposing the pact have used Senate rules, which are designed to protect the minority, to delay a vote on the pact signed Dec. 8 by Reagan and Gorbachev...
Even without provocation by the AIDS virus or other infectious organisms, the immune system can sometimes go awry. Often, entirely on its own, it can overrespond, fail to respond or turn against the body it is designed to protect with the same lethal fury it directs against invaders and cancerous cells. Some 80 immune-system deficiencies have been identified so far. About one in 400 people has at least one immune-system component missing or malfunctioning, usually for genetic reasons. In one in 10,000 people, the deficiency leads to serious disorders. Perhaps the most tragic example is severe combined...
...doctrine that the U.S. and its allies must "contain" Soviet expansionism around the globe, had another explanation. They believed that Leonid Brezhnev and the other Kremlin gerontocrats were seeking a buffer zone against Islamic ferment in Iran, much as Joseph Stalin had erected the Iron Curtain to protect the U.S.S.R. against its enemies in the West after World...