Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will emphasize efforts to design an American satellite killer to defend against the Soviet version. In September the Defense Department quietly awarded the $58.7 million contract for its own ASAT program to the Vought Corp. of Dallas. The U.S. plan is to leap frog the relatively crude Soviet ASAT technology and put into space by the mid-1980s hunter-killer satellites armed with lasers that could vaporize metal in 20 billionths of a second...
...their part, the gangsters still seek to defend themselves as a traditional part of society. Speaking last week in the outskirts of Kobe under the eyes of police guards, one local gang boss out on bail defiantly described the yakuza as "lotus flowers on a sea of mud." Said he: "We're flotsam of society, but we're dedicated to our own code of honor at the cost of our own lives. If I as a boss didn't control my boys, the city would be worse off-call us a necessary social evil." Increasingly, it appears...
...free trade still possible? Economically, perhaps, but politically, in an industrial world still cursed by high unemployment and slow recovery from the 1973-75 recession, it is getting harder and harder to defend. The nine nations of the European Community, which, ironically, was founded precisely to free trade among its members, have put up barrier after barrier against foreign goods. In the U.S. two actions within the past fortnight have dramatized the growing clamor for restrictions against imports of steel, textiles, shoes, TV sets and dozens of other items. At the end of September, Zenith Radio Corp., the largest...
...That was when Dartmouth lived true to their old nickname--the Indians--by cutting us up at the pass," lamented coach Bill McCurdy after the meet. "We'd left the women back at the buses and gone out to defend ourselves against the savages, but wound up getting totally scalped," he added...
...half proposal was put forward by Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal-unenthusiastically. The former chairman of Bendix Corp. at first sought to defend the expense-account lunch. But in a long session in the White House earlier this year, Blumenthal and his aides came away convinced that Carter's moral conviction compelled him to take action against what he believes to be an unjustified excess...