Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alliance with the U.S.; on the contrary, they prompted NATO allies to face down hysterical opposition from domestic peace movements and allow U.S. missiles to be placed on their soil as a counterweight to the Soviet launchers. By carrying through the deployment, the U.S. made its point: it would defend its allies. Now it can sacrifice most of the missiles without loss, particularly since the original purpose of installing them was to persuade the Soviets to scrap most of the SS-20s. Ironically, West European leaders no longer embrace the "zero option" once favored by both Reagan and Gorbachev. Having...
...consider asking the guy in back of me to hold my place while I get a newspaper, but he looks sort of shifty-eyed. I have the feeling that he covets my spot, which I am by now prepared to defend with my life...
That is not all he considers. Before he boards the airplane that will take him to Memphis, either to defend his father from his sisters or vice versa, Phillip picks through a tangled skein of memories. The crucial incident in the Carver history, as he sees it, occurred in 1931, when his father moved his family, his wife and four children, including the youngest, Phillip, 13, from Nashville to Memphis. George Carver, an eminently respectable lawyer, had been "deceived and nearly financially ruined" by his business association with a Nashville entrepreneur. Old-fashioned honor demanded a move to a place...
...been further complicated because the presence of the contras on Honduran soil violates the principle of self-determination enshrined in the country's constitution. Honduran officials are therefore wont to deny the guerrillas' presence in one breath and, in the next, to explain that the contras are needed to defend the 508-mile border with Nicaragua. Having seen the Sandinistas invade their country in pursuit of contras only last March, some Hondurans believe the guerrillas are not preventing war so much as provoking it. "Of course U.S. economic aid helps us," says Efrain Diaz, head of the opposition Christian Democratic...
...best that can be hoped for is some compromise that--tada!--sounds a lot like our very own Core Curriculum. This highlights the fundamental problem with Bok's thoughtful, well-conceived book. It's almost too well conceived. His purpose in writing it at times seems to be to defend, in the guise of a formal study, his tenure as president of Harvard. Budding bureaucrats need some help dealing with social problems? Well, our Kennedy School is a great place. Professional school students need some ethical training? We're doing it here, folks...