Word: defend
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...NOVEMBER 30 of last year the Spartacist League successfully challenged for the first time the 1983 Attorney General Guidelines for Domestic Security/Terrorism Investigations. The plaintiffs called the suit "an important victory for everyone who fights to defend democratic rights." Indeed it was, and one such triumph is not enough to protect the right of free speech from attacks by the Reagan Administration...
...baseball squad and both the men's and women's crews should gain national attention, while the women's lacrosse team should successfully defend its four straight Ivy titles...
...Sunday, the 40th President raised his right hand and made the ritual pledge to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution." The ceremony was private; the Inaugural date required by the Constitution, Jan. 20, fell on a Sunday this year, and Reagan had the political sense not to upstage either the Sabbath or the Super Bowl.* The ceremony was limited to the President and the Vice President and 95 guests: family and friends, the Cabinet, Congressional leaders and the President's closest aides. For the first time ever, news cameras were allowed to record the scene. Later in the day, Reagan...
...embarrassing political problem for Thatcher. Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock called her handling of the crisis an "epic of bungling indecision." Two weeks ago, Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, aggravated the tense situation by telling reporters that they could be "absolutely certain that we are not going to defend" a particular value of the pound. That unfortunate remark helped speed the currency's slide and forced Thatcher to abandon her hands-off policy...
...candidate for the crucial presidential debate. While William Casey, then Reagan's campaign manager, claimed he did not remember any such papers, Baker maintained he had received the documents from Casey. Investigators found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, but Baker had been put in the position of having to defend his integrity. For a member of a proud, forthright clan, this was excruciating ignominy...