Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Windows," urges policemen to spend more time maintaining order than simply making arrests. Such, "order-maintenance." Kelling and Wilson say, requires the use of tactics other than arrests to drive gangs, vagrants, and other "undesirables" from a neighborhood. Thus, they add, the streets seem more orderly, and therefore more safe...
Even with 500 British special constables skulking outside, the 80,000 Nationalists (physically weak and mentally timid though they are) felt safe behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...
...uniforms of Phalangist militiamen, they wear spiffy red-and-gold scarves emblazoned with the Venetian Lion of St. Mark, and their presence inspires comfort rather than terror. They are Italian marines who keep strict watch from a ring of sentry posts and constantly patrol streets that are now as safe as any in Lebanon...
Which, needless to say, is a long way from being completely safe. Random shells fired by gunners in the Chouf Mountains explode in Shatila and virtually every other neighborhood, underscoring a cruel and dangerous irony facing not only the Italians but also the American, French and British troops in the Multi-National Force (MNF). By doing their job as peace keepers, the approximately 5,400 members of the MNF are being drawn with seeming inexorability into the country's increasingly chaotic civil...
...with so many freedoms, "Choice" becomes a travesty to those without the dollars to exercise it. Safe abortions can be prohibitively expensive for poor women if they are denied the assistance of Medicaid or other federal funds. The point of this assistance is not to promote abortion as an inexpensive form of birth control--few if any women would take the operation so lightly, and schools must continue their efforts to educate young people about sex and birth control so they will not be confronted with such a painful decision. Rather, federal assistance would ensure that when a potentially tragic...