Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elizabeth Holtzman and the techniques she used to staff her new office as Brooklyn. District Attorney. By calling on students for answers, Moore focuses the discussion on the role of the district attorney in enforcing the law. Students are prepared for the rapid-fire questioning and are ready to defend their points to the instructor and the other students. Like most students, Portman comes to class having prepared a flowchart of the decision-making process of the district attorney's office. The 40-page case is underlined with yellow highlighter...
...addition, tenants say the building management assured several people facing eviction that they need not appear at court hearing on the matter, and when 22 of 38 such tenants failed to show up to defend themselves, the court ruled their evictions uncontested because they had defaulted...
...Senators insisted that military aid should be linked to much greater progress by the Salvadoran government in stopping the indiscriminate killing of civilians by its soldiers and in punishing any transgressors, Shultz surprised them with his harshest public criticism so far: "You cannot get me to sit here and defend what has happened under the judicial system in El Salvador," he declared. "I won't do it. If they don't clean up this act, the support here is going...
...life image. "McCarthy forced Heckler in a role," Pierce says, "where people would look at her and say she's at best a wimp and at worst a liar" Pierce calls McCarthy "the great untold story of the Margaret Heckler Barney Frank race." By forcing Heckler to defend both sides of the fence she was straddling on the abortion issue, McCarthy made Heckler look like a hypocrite and watched her formerly automatic constituencies fade away. "The point that people are missing," Pierce adds, "is that elections are a continuum. What Bob McCarthy started in 1980 with abortion. Barney Frank...
...Reagan revolution" still need only a bellows to heat them up again once in a while. Once again the "Great Communicator" showed his skill; he managed to reassure the most conservative listeners present of his positions on the "social issues" mainly abortion and school player without having to defend what many in the New Right see as a poor record of political action on those issues...