Word: protectorate
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...price begins to jeopardize the U.S. economic expansion," says Baumohl, "we may have reached the point where the question becomes: Are we saving the Saudi royal family at the expense of the U.S. economy? That's prompting calls for some arm-twisting on OPEC - after all, as their effective protector and godfather, the U.S. has considerable leverage over countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait...
...protector of Weed's sheep is a six-year-old llama named Cyrus, an animal best known for its thick, shaggy coat and its agility on narrow alpine trails. Here on the flatland expanse at the base of the snow-capped Bridger Mountains, the brown and white beast walks guard duty amid a sea of much smaller brown and white woolly bodies. Deceptively spry despite his goofy appearance, the llama struts and shuffles among the flock, craning his head from one side of the field to another while occasionally stopping to munch on grass clumps in the crusty, frozen earth...
...Fleet Center, my editor pulls me aside. "I swear she's gonna get jumped," he warns. Yeah--I think--she doesn't know what she's getting herself in to. Suddenly, I feel a little cockier about this venture. Satisfied with my newly appointed role as The Protector, I sense some of my Harvardfeebleness melting away. I'm ready for some SmackDown...
...also as old as the history of technology. Geek meets geek. Geeks fall in love. Geeks get married. At AOL's headquarters in Dulles, Va., and at Time Warner's in Manhattan, there was hope that these nerd nuptials might join the ranks of other great pocket-protector romances: Hewlett and Packard, Allen and Gates. But there was also a worry that these two might somehow turn their partnership into a knife fight. "This is," both men kept insisting last week, "a merger of equals." People thought they were talking about their companies. They were talking about each other...
...plus governments at the meetings would be hard enough, without the added complexity of the kaleidoscope of interest groups and activists that have turned the streets of Seattle into a mix of protests, political muscle-flexing and violence. The WTO is portrayed by its supporters as protector of the poor and bulwark of global prosperity, and by its foes as an unaccountable, secretive body riding roughshod over workers rights and the environment...