Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee focused its attention on President Bok, who opposes divestment on the grounds that corporate influence affords. Harvard greater leverage in the apartheid state's human rights conflict. When Bok visited Harkness Commons in March, a crowd of students bombarded him with criticism, demanding that he defend Harvard's investment policy. Later, students and several faculty protesters twice marched on Massachusetts Hall to rally for divestiture outside Bok's office...
...working in two or three courses, this commitment can at times make for an exhausting workload. But administrators defend the experience as valuable preparation for later academic careers...
...Lenders defend ARMS as one of the few effective ways to make homes affordable. Says Dennis Jacobe, senior vice president of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions: "The housing industry would be dead right now if it weren't for ARMS." Savings institutions also say they need ARMS as a hedge against interest-rate surges like the one in 1981-82, when many lenders were caught with fixed-rate loans that paid them as little as 41/2%. At the same time, the thrifts were forced to pay 10% or more in interest to depositors. Says Edwin Gray, chairman...
...German side, Rommel had some 500,000 men strung out along an 800-mile front from Holland to Brittany, and he knew only too well how vulnerable they were. Since the bulk of German power was committed to the Russian front, his 213,000-man Seventh Army, charged with defending Normandy, was an untested force, filled out with middle-aged conscripts and unreliable recruits from Eastern Europe. Only 70,000 of the defenders were stationed near the targeted beaches. The Luftwaffe's fighter defenses had been seriously depleted in two years of air battles, and the remnants were...
...father was 57 years old," she said. "They killed my father because he grabbed his gun to defend us. We had taken refuge--myself, the women who's standing near me, my two children and a small child. My father had been injured in one leg, so he came and sought refuge with us, but the Contras came and took him away...He could not defend himself. He could not even walk. They hit the children...with their guns. They didn't even let the old man kiss his children. In front of the children they stood...