Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HISTORICAL significance of the 1980s is that the Winners, in the rush to defend their privileged positions, forgot that the rest of society existed. Granted, the Winners do a lot of agonizing about the plight of the ghetto "underclass." And then there...
...could not defend this on First Amendment grounds," he told the Union-News in Springfield. "I could not defend giving...of taxpayers' money for two kids to throw spitballs. They started off trying to be the New York Times and became the National Enquirer...
...retrospect, the choice of the word "defend" was poor. But I stand by my accusation that Dershowitz is an inveterate apologist for Israel. My point was not whether Dershowitz approves of human rights violations, but whether he rationalizes them. And indeed he does...
...also a large factor. "The majority of young people are having increasing difficulty seeing the army as the school of the nation," says sociologist Karl W. Haltiner of the Military Affairs Department in Zurich. Spillman agrees: "There is a weakening of the nation-state feeling and the need to defend...
...brisk rate of change has already created stress fractures between the students, who have their own strike committee, and the Civic Forum, whose leaders are drawn largely from Charter 77, an umbrella opposition group set up in 1977 to defend human and civil rights in Czechoslovakia. The students, who were faster to draw up a concise list of demands, have been irked by the Civic Forum's failure to include younger voices in its deliberations. "The Civic Forum is more experienced," says Monika Pajerova, 23, "but we are more radical." Some within the Civic Forum regard the students as "children...