Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suing students argue that the First Amendment, which has long been interpreted to protect both free speech and the freedom not to speak, should prevent a public university from requiring that its students fund politically-oriented groups. They rely on a Supreme Court decision prohibiting a government-imposed union from requiring its members to contribute dues towards the union's political advocacy. However, the University of Wisconsin is not donating to the Gore campaign and sending the bill to its students. The student fee is a means of promoting an open forum on campus for groups of all kinds: religious...
...delicate balancing act," Carter said. "Because we are not as large, we wanted to protect our competitive position, so we did struggle with...
...condensed into 15 minutes, it does have some redeeming qualities. The props and especially the costumes are delightful. One real window hangs in the middle of the stage. This window is used by both families, and links them in a way. Both families have only a glass window to protect them from the forces of the war; both mothers wave goodbye to their sons from this window. It stands as a symbol of the common human suffering behind...
...from SUVs to soda pop. Disconcerting though this development may be, it happens to come with a substantial upside; because wilderness is now esteemed as something precious and/or fashionable, wild places are more often being rescued from commercial exploitation. But if the wilderness fad has made it easier to protect wild country from development, it has made it harder to protect wild country from the exploding ranks of wilderness enthusiasts. Increasingly, places once considered enduringly back of beyond are now crowded with solitude seekers...
...point the way toward a cold cure though. Scientists at the University of Ghent, in Belgium, have found a protein called M2 that seems to be present in virtually every flu strain known to man. Using that knowledge, they have made a vaccine that they think could protect against all flus--old, new and those not yet in existence...