Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking in Spanish through an interpreter, Garcia said that the $4 billion the U.S. has sent to El Salvador, much of it in the form of military aid, has made it difficult for opposition groups to protect human rights...
Frank said that two bills passed last year, the Fair Housing Act and the Grove City Bill, protect people with AIDS, and carriers of the virus, from discrimination...
...Vasili Pichul's smash hit Little Vera, the kids look like Sunset Strip punks and act as if they'd just invented adolescent angst. Vera's dad is a drunken oaf, abusing the children who hate him yet cling to him and lie to protect him. He could be the petty dictator of a pre-Gorbachev regime, and his daughter the strident soul of rebellion. In her sharp, defiant voice, you can hear the sound of breaking glasnost...
...passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, but it may be delayed by the Prince William Sound disaster. Says Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat: "The Exxon Valdez spill illustrates in a devastating way how delicate the environment of Alaska can be and how impotent we are to protect it from our own mistakes." Ironically, America's worst oil spill occurred just four days before the tenth anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident that choked off the development of nuclear-power plants and led to growing reliance on coal and oil. The bill for that decision is beginning...
...nations or groups of people desire to militarily overcome and/or depress the United States. In these circumstances, there is the potential for tremendous loss of life if no effective resistance is offered. For this reason, I feel it my duty to contribute to our defensive force in order to protect the lives of my family, friends and countrymen. Again, I could be criticized here as being trite, but I think sincerity and strength of conviction are much stronger than such cynicism. Timothy McCormack...