Word: safely
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Saturday's games were slugfests characterized by early and prolific scoring. The Crimson took a quick 6-0 lead in the first game on the strength of a three-run first and three-run second. With ace Jamie Irving on the mound pitching lefthanded, the lead seemed safe...
...President's rhetoric," said another. "He did not say the point of the bombing is to guarantee the safety of those enclaves. He was not trying to make that argument." But, the same official added, "we are trying to argue that this will enhance the safety of the safe areas." That superfine distinction seems aimed mainly at ensuring that new air strikes won't be judged a failure even if some Serb shelling persists...
Terrified Muslim residents of the eastern Bosnian city of Gorazde, declared a "safe area" by the United Nations last May, huddled under nearly continuous attack by Bosnian Serb forces for the third straight week. At week's end NATO allies issued a strongly worded new ultimatum to Serb gunners, giving them until 2:01 a.m. local time Sunday to withdraw their forces 1.9 miles from the town center and allow U.N. peacekeepers into the besieged city. The threatened big stick: allied bombing on a far greater scale than before...
...convicted of spraying cars with easily removable paint deserve half a dozen powerful strokes on the buttocks with a sopping-wet bamboo staff? At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture? By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach to a safe society about human rights? Isn't the shipshape and affluent little city-state molded by Lee Kuan Yew a model of civic virtues...
...most self-disciplined cultures in the world. Prizing family, learning and hard work, overseas Chinese have prospered wherever they have settled. Heavily Chinese Hong Kong is, granted, a somewhat messier place than Singapore. But without social engineering or the flogging of vandals, Hong Kong is still very safe and quite rich. Its crime rate: 1,522 reported offenses for every 100,000 people in 1992. Singapore...