Word: protector
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...role as protector of America's economic future, Greenspan sometimes acts to head off scenarios that are exceedingly remote but, in the worst case, could do extreme damage. Concerned last year that growth was not taking hold despite large tax cuts and worried over the slim possibility that the economy could slip into a deflationary spiral, he opted to cut short-term interest rates to 1%, their lowest level since 1958. "His policy was to move aggressively to pre-empt the chance that this small-probability event would ever take place," says Roger Ferguson, the Fed's vice chairman...
...RUSSIA: Is Vladimir Putin playing protector or politics...
LETTER FROM MOSCOW: Is Vladimir Putin playing protector or politics...
...could easily have spent the next two years lavishing attention on domestic affairs, ostentatiously opening a bioterrorism triage center in every clinic in every hamlet in America. Punctuate that with regular announcements about the hunt for al-Qaeda, and he could have coasted to re-election as Father Protector...
...detailing the heroics of Secret Service Agent Brass Bancroft. In Secret Service of the Air, he foils an alien-smuggling racket and, during a fight, executes a smooth backflip over a cantina table. Murder in the Air earned some later camp luster with its secret weapon, the Inertia Protector, which is able to destroy hostile bombs aimed at the U.S.--a primitive forerunner of President Reagan's Star Wars plan...