Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Local security measures are being taken to assure that recovery operations can take place in a safe and orderly manner," it said...
...will protect me tonight? I need to go to the library. I will want to go to Tommy's even later than 11:30. I don't think the police will be able to do it. I don't think "safe" men on the street will do it. It will be me again tonight, and every other night...
...Glaysher, a Rockwell vice president at the Cape, and told him that Rockwell could not recommend proceeding with the launch. Glaysher raised the issue at a 9 o'clock meeting the next morning attended by a score of ice experts and chaired by Aldrich. "Rockwell cannot assure it is safe to fly," he said. The company feared that ice might break off the gantry and damage the orbiter tiles...
However, both of these recent happy events will soon pose some potentially embarassing problems for the United States. Both retired despots agreed to hang up their spikes only after the Reagan Administration promised them safe passage out of their former playgrounds. And both men and their groupies naturally assumed that they would have at their beck and call the fortunes they had plundered during their years in public service...
...like it or not, were for many years "our S.O.B.s" in the fight against the Evil Empire. But, more important, it would send the wrong message to other despots the U.S. might one day like to spirit out on the first transport out of town. With the assurance of safe passage out of Manila and asylum in the U.S., Marcos at least chose to leave without shedding blood. If the U.S. were to now leave these men out in the cold,it would make it tough in the future to get other miscreant leaders to abdicate without trying to hang...