Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another jolt of political excitement hit the new campaign with the news that Denis Worrall, the country's ambassador in London, was resigning his post and coming home. Insiders say that Worrall, a former National Party M.P., could no longer defend his country's racial policies abroad. He reportedly plans to run for Parliament as an independent...
...workings of an expert system -- that is, a computer program that emulates the reasoning and procedures of an expert in a specialized field. The tic-tac-toe program relies on the judgment of seven internal "experts" in playing the game. For instance, WIN looks only for winning moves. DEFEND acts to block wins by its opponent, and DECIDE weighs the recommendations of the other six and dictates the moves. On the computer screen each of the experts has its own tic-tac-toe board. Their recommended moves are color-coded. Red denotes urgency: when the machine's opponent...
...Central Intelligence Agency denied the allegations. For State Department officials responsible for monitoring the war and managing the U.S.'s relations with its allies in the Middle East, the charges were yet another headache in the laborious process of maintaining a policy that is increasingly difficult to defend -- or even understand...
...government's response to the ad was swift. By midnight it had extended emergency press regulations to forbid publication of "any advertisement or report calculated to improve or promote the public image or esteem of an organization which is unlawful." Likewise forbidden were attempts to praise, defend, explain or justify the actions of illegal political groups. The import of the new rules was clear: any positive mention of the A.N.C. would be judged "subversive" and subject editors to a $9,000 fine, a ten-year prison term or closure of their publications...
...corruption. But at one point his address took a distinctly unfamiliar turn. According to the Uzbek daily Pravda Vostoka, Gorbachev called for a "firm and uncompromising struggle against religious phenomena." Then he said, "We must be strict above all with Communists and senior officials, particularly those who say they defend our morality and ideals but in fact help promote backward views and themselves take part in religious ceremonies...