Word: protective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie's core audience, the Clearasil crowd. The problem may be that Zucker, in his maturity--O.K., O.K., that's another stretch--has social satire on his mind. His target is big-time sports, and he casts Parker and Stone as purists, good-natured rather than transgressive, trying to protect the eponymous game they invented (it combines hoop shooting with baseball scoring) from commercialization when it moves from their driveway to professional arenas...
...President's testimony before sending his report to Congress, and he was convinced that Clinton would not be able to hide behind the Presidential Seal. As a former White House official says, "the worst thing he could do is start using the constitutional powers of the presidency to protect himself...
...another blow; it ruled that Lindsey's testimony was not shielded by attorney-client privilege, since Lindsey was not actually Clinton's lawyer but paid by the taxpayers. A government lawyer's duty, the judges wrote, "is not to defend clients against criminal charges and it is not to protect wrongdoers from public exposure." It has long been believed that if anyone close to Clinton shares his deepest, darkest secrets, it's Lindsey. The prospect of his testimony meant that Starr had finally breached the President's inner sanctum...
...confirmed that more than 500 civilian corpses were buried in a mass grave, the West may be forced to act. "NATO has been sitting back and waiting for the Serbs to cross a threshold," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "They'll think long and hard before attacking, because to protect Western pilots NATO will have to disable the Serbs' air defenses, and that means striking throughout Serbia...
More investors, especially among the elderly, are getting suckered into scams, losing money on shady penny-stock schemes, foreign-currency deals and even ostrich farms, the North American Securities Administrators Association said last week. To protect yourself, steer clear of high-pressure telemarketing pitches, or at least check out the firm with state regulators, whose names and numbers are available...