Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to come into this game with a psychological advantage," Harvard running back Tony Hinz says. "Holy Cross has a lot to protect with its 8-0 record. They have everything to lose and we have everything to gain...
...fact, none of the negotiators were elected by anyone. Buthelezi was appointed to his post by the Pretoria government and receives "a not-ungenerous salary from the South African state." (11) The original idea for a Kwazulu-Natal indaba came from the South African Sugar Association, seeking to protect its sugar estates from falling under the communal land tenure that prevails on the Kwazulu bantustan. It was seconded by the Buthelezi Commission, which hoped to separate political planning "from popular participation, and placed decision-making in consensus sessions between leaders representing various constituencies...
...Behold! I found my name to be in the Harvard Crimson Editorial column. I came across a paragraph that said "Incumbent Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's unique brand of populism includes crucial support for rent control--he provides the outgoing Council's fifth. "swing" vote to protect the system. Vellucci, however, opposes the CCA candidates' effort to create a "linkage" program that would help alleviate the pressures of development by requiring large-scale builders to add to the stock of affordable housing." I read the paragraph which concerns Al Vellucci two times through, and I have come to the conclusion...
DAVID E. Sullivan and his following have offered few reasons for continuing rent control to the non-needy--reasons ranging from the absurd to the blatantly self-interested. Supporters say that the law was instituted to protect rental units, not the people who live in them...
...lame duck but a crippled one. One after another, his major goals for this fall have gone aglimmering: the appointment of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, the hope to win renewed funding for the contras in Nicaragua, and his aim of pushing through a budget plan that would protect defense spending without raising existing taxes or imposing new ones. The stock-market plunge only magnified his new aura of ineffectiveness. Through it all, he and his aides were hoping for a grandly choreographed summit with Gorbachev to salvage a bit of Reagan's public luster...