Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business leaders point to existing industry safeguards that protect children from inappropriate advertising...
...piece's fourth point, Bloom wrote, "Teenagers should have the right to counseling about AIDS...and how to protect themselves from other STDs...
...seeks to protect existing housing...and we hope to lay the groundwork for the development of possible future affordable housing in what is now a parking lot," Vickers said...
...biotechnology known as Terminator. On Tuesday, agribiz giant Monsanto promised not to impose on its customers a technology that renders seeds sterile after the plant has ended its growth cycle. The boys down in the Monsanto accounting department saw this as an ingenious way to protect the company's investment by forcing farmers to buy new bags of their super-productive seeds ? such as the bioengineered Bt corn ? instead of planting seeds culled from the previous year's crop...
...Terminator isn't terminated just yet. Monsanto says it will press on with its attempted purchase of Delta (which is under federal antitrust review), and will use the technology to help with other biotech experiments. Meanwhile, the company says it will continue to investigate other ways to protect its copyrighted seeds ? without making your tomatoes barren...