Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, a tragic ending, hopefully brought about by a showy use of government force. Waco has all of these, and a built-in audience: the antigovernment militia types who consider their inalienable rights to be under constant siege from the same government that's supposedly sworn to protect them. Whether you call this contingent patriots or terrorists, conflagrations like Waco are their spiritual grist. And the feds are just making it worse...
...from the banal (travel efficiency) to the sublime (on Aug. 24, supporters are asked to fast "to seek God's will for Gary"). Calling for "Kingdom Impact Across Our Land," prayer partners are to plea that "the campaign team will lack gossip and false testimony. The Holy Spirit will protect the Bauer Team from deception and misperception." On another day, they will pray that "Gary will be protected from the fiery darts of opponents, the media and opposition groups. Pray the financial, volunteer, exposure, credibility blocks in the campaign will be removed." To that end, another entreaty...
...huge, but that doesn't mean the fish is still abundant everywhere. If commercial fishermen overfish a spot near nursing sea lions, both mothers and pups can starve. That's why the Trustees for Alaska, a public interest law firm, has sued the U.S. government for failing to protect areas vital to endangered marine mammals. The group's litigation director, Peter Van Tuyn, points out that in southeast Alaskan waters, where there is little industrial fishing of pollack, the sea lion population has held up relatively well. And fur seals in the Pribilofs have done better than sea lions, perhaps...
Until recently, he was right. A 15-year-old ninth-grader, Lance had been declared "emotionally conflicted," and was shielded from expulsion by federal laws that protect children with disabilities. But last April he went too far. On a school bus full of children, he punched a teacher's aide and threatened to grab the steering wheel and cause a wreck. District Attorney David Whetstone sued the boy in civil court, describing him as a "clear and present danger," and persuaded a state judge to bar him from all Alabama public schools. "It was a little creative," says Whetstone...
...from the banal (travel efficiency) to the sublime (on Aug. 24, supporters are asked to fast "to seek God?s will for Gary"). Calling for "Kingdom Impact Across Our Land," prayer partners are to ask that "the campaign team will lack gossip and false testimony. The Holy Spirit will protect the Bauer Team from deception and misperception...