Word: defend
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...South Africa and spurning investment in the black countries of Africa. Although American businessmen don't seem to share the State Department's fear that the firm repression of this nationalism can only lead to disaster for all sub-Saharan countries, they nevertheless have found increasing need to defend and cover-up the policies which lead to their highly profitable business operation in South Africa...
Nowhere is this plainer than in the Middle East. At least from 1948 until 1967, the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors didn't fall into the classical pattern of conflict between imperialists and their opponents, one powerful country seeking to defend its economic and political resources by exploiting weak countries' workers and their resources and controlling their government. To be sure, the great powers of the world took an interest in the Middle East, and had no objection to trying to turn its people's suffering to their own advantage. England and France, alarmed by Egypt's nationalization...
Like most other book reviewers today, Foote passionately believes that what this country needs is fewer but better books. He once wrote an article urging that each publishing house produce no more books than its editor in chief could personally read in a year and successfully defend at a dinner party of his most literate friends...
Forced to defend themselves, AP&L officials have under cross-examination come out with some astonishing statistics. In the Cecil Lynch Plant, no blacks were hired between 1959 and 1970. In 1970, when Baker first filed his suit, blacks at the Lynch plant worked only as laborers or janitors, the plant's lowest job categories; and the average salary of AP&L employees was $8000 for whites and $4000 for blacks...
...season opener featured a gay apartment house, an alcoholic actress and an attempted rape of a Lolita-like minor). But in next month's installment the pair will really get to shuck the corn. They will return to Jim my's home town in West Virginia to defend a man accused of committing a blood-feud murder with a muzzle-loading rifle...