Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leggett, the top national ranking is a great psychological lift to have through the long cruel New England winter months and a thesis that he hopes to finish this week. "I always used to go into regattas with an inferiority complex," he commented. "Now we have to defend our pride...
...dubbed Communiqué No. 1. The message was ignored by President Franjieh, who remained safe inside his presidential palace at Baabda, on a hill overlooking the capital. The 150-man presidential guard, reinforced with armor units, was on alert and patrolled the grounds. "I am staying on to defend legality and legitimacy," Franjieh announced. "There are three conditions for vacating the presidency: resignation, death or dismissal by Parliament. None of these exist...
Getting It Back. Despite the reform campaign, even some well-educated young Indians defend the system. "Why should I sacrifice what is my due?" asks one 24-year-old engineer in New Delhi. "I am a qualified engineer, and my family spent a fortune educating me. Now that I have made it, we have the right to get some of it back." Says Usha Malik, 21, a stenographer in New Delhi: "Personally. I am opposed to dowries. But unless we pay them, we will never be married. On the other side, there is pressure from our parents to get married...
...floating-rate system-under which currencies pretty much find their own value in the market-is proving that it too can suffer, if not a crisis, then a period of turmoil. The troubles are pallid by past standards: central banks are spending only millions, rather than billions, to defend their countries' currencies, and no exchange offices are refusing to accept tourists' foreign money. Nonetheless, some currencies are not so much floating as drowning...
Aiming for greater realism, Lester kept cutting down on the love story between Robin and Marian, and Hepburn fought to retain some of her best romantic lines with Connery. Says she: "With all those men, I was the one who had to defend the romance in the picture. Somebody had to take care of Marian...