Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer work Affirmative Discrimination. Daedalus is simply a distillery for Glazer. We get his essence without getting any of the facts to attempt to back his contention. This shortcoming is a function of length; he cannot monopolize the 250 pages or so that he needs to explain and defend his thesis. Barring that, we must settle for an abbreviated historiography of discrimination and the naked conclusions he draws...
...years I opposed capital punishment, but I changed my opinion several years ago. Our criminal statutes say a man can defend himself from being killed, harmed, etc., by using reasonable means even if he has to kill first...
...Democrats were put off by this. "We ought to be able to do better than that," said Tip O'Neill, the next Speaker of the House, of Carter's unemployment goals. But O'Neill was already sounding like a man who knew he would have to defend Carter against the criticism of impatient liberals. Said he: "We'll have to give him time...
...powered submarine built in 1961, was recovered virtually intact. Confirms a senior U.S. Navy officer: "It was all one hell of a success." Why the partial-recovery story? The CIA remains mum about its motives but the agency evidently had a dual aim. For one thing, it wanted to defend the high cost of Jennifer-about $550 million, all billed to the Navy. At the same time, the agency wanted to avoid unnecessarily embarrassing the Russians, who, U.S. intelligence officials knew, would not fall for the CIA's story anyway...
With the potential consequences of a decision to uphold the ruling so damaging, it is gratifying that the University has decided to prepare an amicus curiae brief to defend the California university's practice of allotting 16 places in each class for minority students. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to accept the case, Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, will write the brief for Harvard. Cox wrote a similar brief two years ago defending the preferential admissions policy of the University of Washington Law School in the DeFunis case. But the Supreme Court did not rule on that...