Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to protect a right to choice, doctors must know abortion techniques. If nobody knows how to perform safe abortions, what the law says is irrelevant, and my complacency is certainly ill-advised...
...hope that as he assumes his new self-styled role of "Senior Associate Dean" he will continue to protect the University's institutional memory and have time to work on his own student initiatives. Additionally, it is necessary to preserve the position of Dean of Students for Epps' suc cessor. In announcing his retirement, Epps quoted from the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, class of 1821, referring to the "long winding train" of men and women who have touched this institution. He now takes his place in that long winding train as a living legend of Harvard history...
There is a lesson or two to be learned from these cautionary tales. There are a few things you can do to protect yourself. Screen potential guests on the basis of hygiene (e.g. does she bring her own soap or shampoo?) and sociopathic tendencies. When a nightmare guest does take over the room, stay tolerant by staying absent. Above all, be very, very cautious upon hearing the disclaimer "I don't really know her that well." There is truth to the old saying that houseguests, like fish, start to stink after three days. Some of them arrive rotten...
Sometimes in its zeal to dole out corporate welfare, the Federal Government finds itself working at cross-purposes. In 1997 a government agency issued a $29 million insurance policy to protect a new garment-manufacturing plant built in Turkey by Levi Strauss, the world's largest apparel manufacturer. Meanwhile the U.S. Department of Labor was approving training grants and extended unemployment benefits for 6,400 workers whose jobs had been eliminated at 11 Levi's plants in this country--on the grounds that the layoffs were attributable to cheaper imports...
...mean to naysay progress in an attempt to protect the "old ways." Nor am I certain that today's technology boom represents the end of some process by which we will all become cut off from one another. The changes technology demands in our time may be of no greater magnitude than at any other time...