Word: shielding
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...drawn the fury of foreign diplomats and regular Kenyans who had begun to doubt their leaders' commitment to resolving a political crisis that killed some 1,200 people. Said President Mwai Kibaki after the horse-trading was finalized: "Let us build a new Kenya where justice is our shield and defender and where peace and liberty and plenty will be found throughout the country...
Tusk showed some on his early March visit to the U.S., when he told President George W. Bush that Poland's security interests would be harmed, not helped, by a U.S. plan to erect a missile shield on Polish territory. He said that Poland would reject the installation, which the U.S. says is aimed at deterring Iranian and North Korean missiles, unless Washington comes with concrete commitments to help Poland upgrade its own defense systems. He is also vehemently opposing Russia's latest demand that it be allowed to permanently station its officers on Polish soil to monitor the antimissile...
Consumers are different, though, which is why we already have laws and regs meant to protect small borrowers and investors. But compared with the rules designed to shield us from dangerous drugs or even faulty toasters, they're pretty toothless. Plus, most are administered by agencies whose main responsibility is keeping whole the firms they regulate, not looking out for customers...
Harvard will consolidate health plans for employees from four administrators to two beginning July 1, the University announced last month. The two plans to be dropped—Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Tufts Health Plan—together enroll 19 percent of employees, but University officials said the transition will cause “minimal disruption” because of the plans’ similar structures. “Health benefits are not changing,” said Peter V. Marsden, who chairs Harvard’s advisory committee on health benefits. “What?...
...Hence the appeal, for Putin at least, of a compromise accepting the presence of the missile shield on its borders in exchange for keeping its southern neighbors out of NATO. It remains to be seen, however, whether President Bush - who talked passionately on Tuesday about the need for NATO to admit Georgia and Ukraine - is ready to split the difference...