Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University is pushing aggressively to protect its 363-year old name, says Enrique J. Calixto, the University's U.S. trademarks administrator. Formal ownership of all Harvard's copyrighted material lies with the "President and Fellows of Harvard College...
Since work is where we spend most of our time and where many of us meet our spouses, you have to wonder whether all this regulation isn't threatening the propagation of the species. Other freedoms, like speech and association, were getting shortchanged in the rush to protect women from sexual harassment. Almost everyone was alarmed when one guy was fired for repeating a Seinfeld joke at the water cooler...
...brutality would happen. Shortly afterward, Dili descended into total violence. Most foreign journalists fled, but a core group of 30 of us remained, deciding to move to the Turismo Hotel for safety. Almost immediately police told us there would be an attack on the hotel, and they couldn't protect us. Under guard, we moved to the U.N. compound...
...sentiments were the same. A list was made up of civilian police, military liaison officers, and political and support staff who wanted to stay. By 1 a.m. there was a reprieve, and the evacuation was delayed 24 hours. The refugees were beginning to realize that the U.N. could not protect them. That night hundreds headed up into the hills behind the compound while Indonesians soldiers fired at them. On Friday morning, with 400 U.N. staff and the majority of the journalists prepared to leave, the atmosphere was still tense. My feelings were mixed as I left in the back...
...survived a serious threat to his life in each of the first two books, but this time Harry may be overmatched. The Azkaban prison guards, horrid hooded apparitions called dementors, have been summoned to Hogwarts to protect Harry, but he keeps fainting whenever a dementor comes near him. A sympathetic professor tells Harry why dementors merit fear: "They breed in the darkest, filthiest places, they create decay and despair, they drain peace, hope and happiness out of any human who comes too close to them... Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can't see them. Get too near...