Word: safe
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...jail before the arrival - and subsequent deportation - of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is the latest sign of a government determined to hang on to power at all costs. "The government has panicked," says Ahsan Iqbal, Information Secretary for Sharif's PML(N) party, speaking from an underground safe house. "What are they trying to prove by bulldozing all opposition to their plans? Does anyone think this can be called a democracy...
...Americans who work with these Sunni groups was their apparent incorruptibility. Unlike the unreliable and incompetent members of the largely Shi'ite Iraqi Army and police, Sunni tribes and nationalist insurgents seem thoroughly committed to a goal that resonates with Americans: keeping their families and their communities safe...
...Still, playing by the rules - annoying though that can be sometimes - wouldn't have mattered if Northern Rock customers had believed their savings were safe amid the bedlam. They didn't. Many were aware the U.K.'s industry-funded Financial Services Compensation Scheme only guaranteed deposits up to around $63,000; in the U.S., savers can expect to get back as much as $100,000 should their bank go under. The British scheme, King said, was in desperate need of an overhaul...
...toys from China safe or not? If you think you're confused, it looks as if even Mattel, the largest toymaker in the United States, doesn't know...
...parents are not willing to control their children, should these families be allowed to remain in Switzerland and endanger the population?" asks SVP legislator Ulrich Schluer. "We have the right to live in a safe environment...