Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mendoza set up for the shot, Larson dived in front in a desperate measure to protect Gunther and clear the ball, a testament to the perpetually strong Harvard defense...
...Russia's central bank transferred more than a billion dollars of hard currency to an overseas company called FIMACO. After Russia's chief prosecutor leaked word of the suspicious off-shore company, the bank eventually apologized, explaining politely that the money had been hidden to protect precious Russian assets from foreign claims and insisting that no laws had been broken. But Russian Duma Deputies charge that the central bank hid the reserves to lure more cash from the INF. The INF has so far uncovered no evidence of illegal diversion of its loans, but is now looking hard...
...used to tap Soviet telephone lines. Unknown to the CIA at the time, however, George Blake, a Russian mole in the British secret service, revealed plans for the tunnel to Moscow Center even before it was built. Blithely, the Soviets waited a year to fill it in, to help protect Blake's identity...
...rush to the beach started years ago. As far back as the 1970s, Florida officials realized that the state's environmentally sensitive barrier islands, which protect the mainland from the force of incoming storms, were becoming overbuilt. But when officials tried to put the brakes on development, they came up against some hard political realities. The fat revenue stream from condo towers, resorts and convention hotels made it very difficult to elect antigrowth politicians. Hurricanes were acknowledged to be a danger. But, says Charles Lee, senior vice president of the Florida Audubon Society, "instead of restrictions, you got engineering standards...
...kill them because of their race, their ethnic background or their religion, and it's within our power to stop it, we will stop it." This Clinton Doctrine, proclaimed with such proud moral flourish just three months ago, is already dead. The real Clinton Doctrine is this: We will protect innocent civilians from bullies--but only bullies that don't count geopolitically...