Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coastline. If a bomb was responsible, we can safely say that terrorism has been imported to the United States, and where it will stop, nobody knows. This week, President Clinton unveiled a new package of security measures for the nation's airports intended to protect our passengers and restore peace of mind. But as we have seen, little can be done to stop a determined attacker, particularly one willing to give his own life for the cause...
...More significantly, all Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games officials and security personnel have been briefed by members of the Immigration and Naturalization Service on what to do in case a Cuban, a North Korean or an Iraqi asks for temporary asylum. (Basically, they were instructed to isolate and protect the Olympian until an ins representative arrives on the scene.) And at the boxing venue on the Georgia Tech campus, officials were fully expecting the defection of one or more of the Cuban boxers, who could still win as many as five gold medals despite the flights of bantamweight Casamayor...
...blame the U.S. for what has happened there, is infuriating. If Afghans believe that the U.S. is responsible for their misery because we supplied them with weapons, do they also believe that we supplied them with the suicidal stupidity to turn those weapons on one another? We can sometimes protect populations from the aggression of invaders, but we can't protect populations from their own ridiculous brutality. KAREN S. COYLE Deland, Florida...
...seems, as she backs up her man with a series of contradictory stories. But she is also very tall, and the prints of her large hands, it develops, are all over the victim's home. Suspicion shifts, and the con man changes his already woozy account, apparently to protect his partner, though of course protecting her implies she needs protection...
...SMOKING BANS in offices, designed to protect employees from the effects of passive smoke, appear to have another benefit: workers are kicking the habit. Today only 26% of indoor workers smoke...