Word: shield
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...council called for a transitional 1.5 percent increase in payroll taxes to maintain retirees’ benefits while younger workers established personal accounts. (Maintaining benefits under the current system would likely require a much bigger hike.) Thoughtful economists have also recommended partial redistribution among the personal accounts to shield individuals from heavy investment losses. Mr. Bush’s plan, in contrast, is unfunded and dispenses with the core principle of social insurance...
While the basic design is intended to be constant, students will have some individual flexibility in the ring design they choose. All students will have the option of replacing their House shield on the side with the letter “H” and the option of having a blank interior instead of the winning design...
...school’s current policy might not shield transgender individuals from bias, according to Professor of Law Janet Halley...
This is exactly why rape shield laws were enacted over 25 years ago—to prevent the disclosure of the survivor’s sexual history and the degrading cross-examination that focuses on the survivor’s behavior—how she acted, what she wore, whom was she with—but Bryant’s powerful team of lawyers managed to find cracks within the shield...
...Over seven decades at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that the source of meteors is not far-flung stars but Earth's solar system. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known as a meteor bumper, or Whipple shield, to protect spacecraft from high-speed particles. The device is still in use today...