Word: shielding
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...observer rather than critic, Rushdie performs brilliantly, transforming a spot on a map into a sweating, struggling panorama of life. He shows us a Nicaragua whose leaders use poetry as a shield against death, in which "liberation" theology challanges traditional Vatican primacy and Bruce Springsteen blares above the cries of sunbronzed street vendors...
...diplomatic foray now wonder if the offer, such an apparent snare, was not really a kind of high-level gesture of hospitality. Soviets spy on Soviets more than on Americans. And since the Soviets wanted the meeting to be a success, the top apparatchiks may have been trying to shield their visitors from the uncontrollable tentacles of the Red bureaucracy...
...page report, which was prepared by a committee of 18 prominent physicists co-chaired by Gade University Professor and Nobel Laureate Nicolaas Bloembergen, examines each of the directed energy weapons proposed for use in SDI. The Reagan Administration has touted the "Star Wars" system as a shield against nuclear weapons...
...signed any agreement on this point. We think an effort will inevitably develop, as it already has in the Soviet Union and as it will in the U.S., to reinforce ((antimissile)) protection, but we suggest that effort cannot be absolute. Since man has existed, the sword and the shield have constantly been reinforced...
...Rolling Stones' fretful tune Gimme Shelter carries a special meaning for rock stars, Hollywood actors, even Wall Street tycoons. Like all of America's truly rich, they constantly look for loopholes in U.S. tax laws to shield their megabuck earnings from the Internal Revenue Service. But at times, as the headlines last week again confirmed, the Government declares those shelters to be illegal...