Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President vetoed the ban on the procedure precisely because it did not include a clause for health-endangering situations. He was right to do so. It is a dangerous and delicate thing when the government starts making laws about what procedures doctors can and cannot perform in order to protect a patient's life or health, and this ban clearly was such legislation at its worst. By failing to protect the mother's health the ban effectively placed the fetus in a position of higher importance than the mother, a clear violation of women's Constitutional rights under...
...epoch, those mores that forbid mixed-sex rooming groups may also crumble. We would hardly applaud such a development. We cling to the out-dated belief that there are some rules of propriety that are, in fact, beneficial to society and the moral life of the individual. Those that protect basic considerations of privacy--the right to establish a sphere devoid of any calculations of sexual dynamics--are worthy of preservation...
...outpouring of public support for an ordinance to protect Cambridge residents from the hazards of asbestos culminated in a vote of unanimous approval at the City Council meeting last night...
DIED. JACK LYNCH, 82, former Irish Prime Minister who chose not to send troops to protect Catholics in Northern Ireland as violence erupted in 1969; in Dublin. He began the tension easing between north and south that led to 1998's peace agreement...
...benefits from going beyond mere export trade and licensing their brands abroad to manufacturers of high-quality consumer goods, ranging from apparel to toys to foods. Licensing's allure is obvious. It offers companies new revenues that require little if any capital outlay. It's an ideal way to protect trademarks from infringers. And it's an invaluable marketing method because it can enhance a brand's image and lead it to new markets. Corporate brand licensing has grown from practically zero in the mid-1980s to a $26 billion industry worldwide. But while most of the industry is either...