Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graham said Monday that she also wanted to draw attention to IV drug users as a group in danger from the disease. She said she hoped such an exchange program would protect drug users, as well as their partners and children, who are also at risk...
Gangs of youths have become the principal organizations for drug trafficking in the nation's major cities. The gangs are resorting to more and more violent measures to protect their turfs, avoid police interference and enforce discipline. Los Angeles saw 387 gang homicides in 1987 alone. In New York City, gang violence has taken 500 lives during the past five years...
Government spokesman Jerzy Urban told a news conference that the decision to storm the steel mill was inevitable. "The majority wanted to work...We must protect our meager economic potential," he said...
Daunting obstacles stand in the way of such reintegration attempts, tutors say. The dual goal of prisons--to protect society and to punish criminals--creates an atmosphere in which inmates have little room to grow or reform, says former PBH Prisons Committee chairman Christine L. Vanasse '88, who wrote her thesis on the topic. "If' we punish them, how at the same time can we make them better people?" she asks...
...shacks," he says. "Most likely she'd grow up, get disgusted, leave and never come back." Last week Allyssa awaited her fate wearing a layer of sweet powder. A Navajo medicine man had covered her with it during a ceremony performed to expel evil spirits. Perhaps it will protect her from the injuries of a bitter custody fight...