Word: protects
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...business and government organizations, taking care of your own is basic protocol. Following every merger - even a distressed one, and Merrill was clearly the weaker entity - bosses on both sides start building the trench lines to protect as many of their people as possible. Are sacrifices made? Sure, that's expected, but you don't give up your guys easily. (See the worst business deals...
Israel likes to believe that its Defense Force is the world's most "moral" army, and it insisted throughout the recent Gaza war that great care was always taken to avoid inflicting civilian casualties. It may surprise and rile many Israelis, then, that their government is trying to protect its citizens from war crimes charges that could be filed in foreign courts over the conduct of hostilities in Gaza. Fearful that Israeli commanders could be targeted for arrest while traveling abroad as private citizens on business or vacation, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Tuesday ordered the Israeli media to refrain...
...there are indeed Israelis who still want to reach out to Palestinians. They are part of what political scientist Ezrahi calls "the liberal-humanitarian strain" of the peace movement. Such activists help protect Arab Bedouins from armed Jewish settlers, challenge illegal demolition of Arab houses in East Jerusalem, keep an eye out for bullying Israeli guards at Palestinian checkpoints and fight in Israeli courts against army and police excesses. But even among these die-hard believers in peace, there is a sense of exhaustion, says David Shulman, a Hebrew University professor of Tamil language and culture who is an activist...
...effectiveness of 40 different technologies used to protect minors online, including filtering and auditing and text analysis, were also assessed by the task force. And while hopeful about future innovations, the task force emphasized not relying on technology alone to prevent these risks. They found that many of the technologies were “point solutions rather than broad attempts” to preventing these dangers...
...President announced another clean break with the Bush Administration, on foreign policy. Summoning the wisdom of "earlier generations," he said, "They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please." Take that, Dick Cheney - who exited the scene in a wheelchair, looking grim, as if he were about to foreclose on someone. Obama piled on several foreign policy zingers when he denounced the "false ... choice between our safety and our ideals" - a reference to Bush's harsh treatment of prisoners - and in his message to the world: "We are ready...