Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Port Alamo, "Anglo" shrimp fishermen battle the current, the depressed prices and the influx of Vietnamese refugees plying an old trade in a new land. Shang (Ed Harris) is one such rowdy all-American, working his ancestral fishing grounds and feeling threatened by the Asians he fought to defend a world and a war ago. Dinh (Ho Nguyen) is a bright, ambitious immigrant who wants a chance to make a living in Port Alamo, whatever the odds. "You gotta be one of the last cowboys left in Texas," Dinh is told by Shang's lady friend Glory (Amy Madigan...
...sides are serious. Baskin-Robbins says that it sold 3 million gallons of Pralines 'N Cream in the U.S. last year, making it the company's No. 1 flavor. Haagen Dazs says it will "vigorously defend the lawsuit" and "aggressively pursue cancellation" of the trademark. Haagen Dazs contends that pralines and cream is a generic name that should be available to all companies, just like chocolate chip and butter pecan...
Indeed, many of those who defend Goetz say his indictment is really an indictment of the system, which they say is stacked in favor of the criminal. Two of the youths who accosted Goetz on the subway were granted immunity from prosecution as an enticement to testify against Goetz before the grand jury. Goetz, by contrast, was refused partial immunity and decided not to testify. Declared Barry Slotnick, one of Goetz's lawyers: "This is a case of the muggers against the muggees, and Round 2 was won by the muggers." William Kunstler, who is representing one of the wounded...
...budget in which the deficit constituted 16% of the gross national product. In the year that I have been in office, that has been reduced by one-half. I think that Argentines have got accustomed to an inflation cycle that is ten years old. And when people learn to defend themselves against inflation, that generates inflation. We have applied policies that we consider correct from our point of view, but the International Monetary Fund established a system of nominal guidelines that is practically impossible to comply with. Inflation is something you cannot stop in one month...
...Goetz's attorneys, Joseph Kelner, was not happy about his client's recent volubility. The more Goetz talks, admitted Kelner, the more difficult he is to defend...