Word: defend
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...Supreme Court upholds those rulings, Hopkins will be entitled to a new hearing to determine what compensation she is owed, and employers in general will have to work harder to defend themselves against discrimination claims. That change could be especially important in cases involving higher job levels like partnerships or executive slots, where promotions are often decided upon by groups of executives, whose motives can be hard for plaintiffs to separate and pin down...
...athletic scholarships. The reason: Kansas improperly spent some $1,200 to recruit an athlete who ended up not playing for the Jayhawks anyway. The most hurtful part of the N.C.A.A. action was its ban on postseason competition, which makes Kansas the first team to be unable to defend its title in the play-offs...
Anything people don't like about an administration can be used against the vice president, said Sears. But the Dukakis campaign failed to make Bush defend himself on issues such as the homeless, because "Mr. Dukakis didn't seem to understand that you could do these things," said Sears...
...multimillion-dollar advertising campaign that has saturated Maryland's airwaves since Labor Day. In addition, the law's opponents have used some of the $4 million supplied by the N.R.A. to canvass urban neighborhoods, proclaiming that cheap handguns are often the only means poor people have to defend themselves against crime. Outspent more than 12 to 1, defenders of the gun ban have countered by emphasizing its many influential backers, including the state's largest law-enforcement agencies. Governor Schaefer was so outraged by the N.R.A.'s campaign that he is starring in a TV spot on behalf...
Turner, 59, the man who lost the Prime Minister's office to Mulroney in 1984, was drawing blood. In trying to defend the agreement, Mulroney only aggravated his wound. "Mr. Turner, the document is cancelable on six months' notice. Be serious. Be serious...