Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many applaud the end, but few defend the means...
Even those who did not question the President's motives found it difficult to defend his particular reshuffling of federal and state roles. Academic theoreticians and practical politicians alike see a need for a federal hand in helping the poor, since their problems are often created by national economic conditions. Only a federal presence can apply pressure to hold down the inequities stemming from a state's relative inability or unwillingness to deal fairly with the problem. States and cities, on the other hand, can more effectively make decisions on how to provide such basic public services...
Kirkland's call for action is being echoed in Congress, but members are divided on what should be done. Senators Kennedy and Quayle defend their $4 billion jobs program bill as sufficiently different from the much criticized CETA program to make it worthwhile. Their bill would forbid local governments to use the federal funds to hire their own employees, such as policemen or firemen. Local businesses would also have a say in setting up job-training programs, thus ensuring that prospective employees were not trained in skills that were no longer in demand...
...University managed by early November to come up with a plan for capital improvements on the building. The plans were selected in time for Harvard to give a green light for the renovations from the city rent control board, but not nearly early enough for the tenants to defend themselves adequately against the University's request. The completed plan gave the tenants a long list to inspect, calling for repairs, which, if approved by the rent board, would send the rent at the Craigie Apartments soaring to more than $700 a month...
...literature or murder. In a long and essentially tragic perspective (in which all consequences are endured, all debts paid), literature performs its redemptions. Mailer's formula is a shallow little mechanism. "Culture is worth a little risk," he says. The world of that sentence is upside down: you defend culture, do you not, by locking up the people who try to kill...