Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report of the River's contamination is bad news for Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld '66, who jumped in the Charles this summer after signing a bill to protect the state's watersheds...
Many pundits feel Weld's easygoing, spontaneous sense of humor works to his advantage. The former Adams House resident surprised even his staff this summer by jumping into the Charles River after signing a bill to protect the state's watersheds...
...then there are the politicians. The two parties' conventions were virtuefests, four-day parades of people conspicuously devoted to their families. Bob Dole vowed to revive "old values," and Bill Clinton vowed to "protect our values." Even presidential adviser Dick Morris, while drowning in a prostitution scandal, managed the obligatory nod to virtue. His parting statement embraced Clinton's vision of an America of "opportunity and"--yes--"responsibility." (Morris may be a candidate for the Charlie Sheen recovery program...
...Chicago police, those masters of irony, rioted. They left their vehicles, marked WE SERVE AND PROTECT, and lumbered out to beat the demonstrators into Jell-O. Hard by the northern limits of their depredation we found and find a statue of Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, famous 17th century hophead and remittance man. La Salle thought he had discovered China on that spot, and wrote to tell the folks at home...
...police needed to protect the Hilton nonetheless. It housed not only delegates and candidates but also the country's besieged political process, its apparently crumbling legitimacy. Recollect the famous sequence at the front end of 1968, that bizarre and violent year...