Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...automatic weapons spray 40 rounds of ammunition at the car from point blank range. The murderers disappear into the night, leaving behind a smoking wreck of shattered glass, blood and the dead bodies of Dulla Chiesa and his wife. She is hit despite the General's pathetic efforts to shield her from the path of the on coming bullets. The ferocity of the attack surprises even the Italian tabloids the next day; usually the Mafia, following a perverse ancient code of honor, spares the spouse. This time, necessity overrules tradition...
...Lately he has been following a more conventional Republican line, consistently supporting President Reagan on economic, military and even environmental policy. On the campaign trail, however, the two-term incumbent stresses his liberal stance on social issues. Weicker portrays himself as a modern knight wielding the Constitution as a shield to ward off the dragon of the New Right. "Please don't let them politicize our Constitution," he pleads. "If I go down, you go down...
...many years in this country, local governments have asserted their right to erect zoning laws to shield residential areas from the effects of rapid large-scale development. While the area in question has always been used for some type of industry, there is no question that whatever MIT builds on the site, and whatever is built in additional areas of Cambridgeport's industrial district will critically affect those living in the neighborhood...
...neighborhood's failures should not be used to shield the council of blame. True, a state law requires the unusually high number of seven councilors to pass zoning changes. But the nine councilors were elected to represent and reconcile the diverse interests of the people of this city --a mandate they have been clearly remiss on in this case...
...seemed to me, just as it usually seems to my kind, that society was simply trying to strip or rip off my shield, that it was willing to do so ruthlessly, that it didn't care about me personally, or the amount of humiliation or degradation it might inflict in the process. I stubbornly balked at being manipulated, regulated, or being compelled to conform blindly through fear or threat or punishment, however severe. Indeed, I came to question the validity of a society that appeared more concerned with imposing its will than in inspiring respect. There seemed...