Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political economics from France's University of Dijon. In 1951, he joined the Manhattan consulting firm of Lionel D. Edie as a $5,750-a-year junior economist, rose to chairman in 1964. He began to move into the public eye after President Johnson, searching for ways to defend his own policies in 1964, quoted one of Rinfret's bullish surveys of industry plans for expansion as evidence that the economy was then turning up. Johnson stumbled over the pronunciation of Rinfret's name (it is Ren-frey), but the economist shrewdly used the incident to promote...
This last twenty minute metee casts the opening idyll in a differentlight. The issues were meant to be unimportant; what matters most is the pain of the bust, the baptism under tear gas, and coming of age. While there is much evidence to defend this emotionalism, it becomes an escape valve for rock numbers, artsy shots, synthetic myth making, and facile evasion of issues...
...Clothier Steve Goldberg's Naked Grape boutique has sold 36,000 flag shirts to retailers across the nation. In a freeway dialogue, decals and bumper stickers are everywhere?LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT, AMERICA; IF YOUR HEART ISN'T IN IT, GET YOUR ASS OUT OF IT; THE FLAG, DEFEND IT, SILENT MAJORITY; AGNEW TELLS IT LIKE IT is. In rebuttal, flag users of a different persuasion have come up with PEACE NOW, GET OUT OF VIET NAM; MAKE LOVE NOT WAR, disarmament semaphores and ecology symbols...
...considerably less cost in U.S. lives than military planners anticipated. In the long run, the fate of the Lon Nol government hangs largely on the whim of Hanoi-which is why, in all his justifications of the border crossing, the President has wisely never made any public pledge to defend Cambodia's present government...
Faust's characters frequently define themselves through movie references. Much of the novel, in fact, could be regarded as a highly inventive, sardonic paraphrasing of Zulu, a 1964 Technicolor extravaganza about the bloody exertions of a British outpost to defend itself against human waves of frenzied black warriors. This particularly holds for the novel's ending, a melodramatic surrealization of a ghetto uprising...