Word: defend
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According to an editors' note in the premier issue, the National Interest makes three assumptions: the primary purpose of U.S. foreign policy must be to defend the national interests of the U.S.; international politics remains power politics; and the Soviet Union represents the single greatest threat to America's interests. Two decades ago, the journal's editors contend, those statements were considered truisms, but today they have become almost exclusively conservative beliefs...
Outsiders were quicker to defend the band's actions, than band members themselves. "It's the instituted tastelessness we all prize and laud in our Band," said Miriam R. Pelikan '89. "That's what we love them...
Wayne State, a commuter school of 29,000 students whose average age is 28, disregarded Maceroni's original request to settle out of court. The university, shunning its in-house legal staff, has retained a private lawyer to defend the school, Maceroni said...
...seen as weakness since socialism measures power in terms of "the number of workers, not in the use if violence," he said. Shawki cited Solidarity in Poland as a movement of great power because of the number of workers involved and because it recognized that it might have to "defend itself against the onslaught of a ruling class...
...Similarly, despite reports of widespread draft resistance in Nicaragua, the 1,200 reservists of the less glamorous southern command who were recently summoned to the front in Juigalpa, about 150 miles from the Bocay River, appear to be in good spirits. "I know why the army needs me: to defend the peace and the revolution," says Ernaldo Lemos, 29. "It's O.K. with...