Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While city activists clamor to protect the distinctiveness of the Square, chain stores are pushing out the Mom and Pop shops of yesterday...
Shortly after that the CDC called a halt to all inoculations with RotaShield, a new vaccine made available last year. It was designed to protect infants from potentially fatal rotavirus infections, which cause severe diarrhea and dehydration. The agency's action followed word that 23 infants suffered a collapsed bowel after getting the vaccine...
...trust that the government is doing things to protect your child, but the reality is that the benefits no longer outweigh the risks," insists Los Angeles attorney Nadine Gehr, who claims her son became autistic after receiving a DTP shot. "My child was fine. Then he was vaccinated, and within three or four days he was a different child...
...stars. Many home-educated students, like apprentice chef Rebecca Durkee, 22, of Livonia, N.Y., and Katie Harwood, 22, of Logan, Utah, a hospital accounting clerk, don't go to college at all. Nor are all home-schooling parents Bible-thumping Christians teaching their kids at apron-string length to protect them from sex, drugs and Darwin. In the gruesome wake of recent school shootings, a new cadre of parents are wondering whether home schooling is the best way to shield their kids from bullets. Ben's and Rebecca's parents did keep them close in a highly structured setting, mostly...
...mission, perils aplenty await both the Timorese and their prospective liberators. For one thing, nobody knows quite who is in charge in Jakarta these days. That the president's announcement was immediately endorsed by the all-powerful military is certainly encouraging, but that same military has repeatedly vowed to protect the Timorese from the very violence in which it turns out to have been an active participant. And, wouldn?t you know it, Indonesia?s generals insist they won?t accept Australians in the peacekeeping mission -- Australia has been tapped to lead any U.N.-authorized force. "Indonesia?s strategy will...