Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon-to-be alumni/ae, we will continue to protect vigilantly the culture of PBHA as it has developed over the past 100 years. We urge the College administration to meet the new and capable leadership of PBHA in an honest, principled, and frank fashion. Public service cannot endure yet another year of haggling over administrative detail. Let us hope that the frustration of this past year can be channeled into positive growth...
Four days earlier, Mitby had spoken against a council bill recommending that the University's non-discrimination policy be amended to protect "transgendered" persons...
...much higher over the next 20 years. It's silly to jump in and out and risk missing big rallies. The declines will be overcome. But human nature hasn't changed much since Adam and Eve. Many people now putting their life savings in stocks will instinctively move to protect them if they sense lasting trouble. Rather than lock in lush profits today, they'll lock in dismal gains--if not outright losses--tomorrow...
...along. (It may not be a completely developed specimen of humanity, but then again, neither is a ten-year-old.) I don't run around with shotguns (neither does any pro-lifer I know), but I can't help hoping that the laws of the country will change to protect these "least among us," as many of our other articles of legislated morality already do. If that makes me an "extremist," so be it. I am not free to act on a definition of life excluding the child who was born ten seconds ago, and cannot think I ought...
Being discriminated against or considered a freak is not fun or frivolous. You are talking about people, human beings, men and women who are deserving of respect and deserving of an official policy to protect themselves within this institution from bigotry and prejudice. This is a real issue that touches real students, and I honestly believe that it is not going to hurt anyone...