Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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State television said Communist leaders would discuss an "action program" of political and economic reforms, plans to set up a constitutional court to protect citizens' rights and a law that would set up a civilian service as an alternative for those drafted by the military...
...major way in which the University can protect the environment is by cutting back the paper waste it generates and the electricity it uses, the panelists told an audience of about 15 people at Longfellow Hall...
...women nationwide are not about to silently sit back and let Washington take away abortion rights. And the states, to whom the Supreme Court is passing the ball, must be told that the debate over choice is a national, constitutional issue and that they should not only protect choice but also provide funding for poorer women seeking abortions...
...test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time." If so, America has developed a perverse sort of genius. Yet both national moods -- the urge to deny risk and the urge to insist that we can protect ourselves from it entirely -- may be traceable to the same unfailing optimism. In a culture that has long fancied itself a New World paradise, disasters seem impossible either to imagine or to tolerate. People expect to conduct the pursuit of happiness along a road that is straight, well lighted and free...
...year for a $200,000 house.) Jack Byrne, chairman of Fireman's Fund, figures that insurers will eventually shell out $2.5 billion to repair earthquake damage. They stand to recover perhaps two-thirds of that from international reinsurers -- Lloyd's of London is the biggest -- which protect insurers against catastrophic losses. Still, the earthquake claims, coming less than a month after the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo, could set off a chain reaction. Reinsurers might become reluctant to continue backstopping American insurers, which in turn would write fewer policies and raise premiums -- and not just on earthquake insurance...